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HEALTH 

ENCYCLOPEDIA 


By Stephen T. Bayles, M. D. 

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INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION 


To those who believe that knowledge of the 
fundamental elements of sex are a prerequisite 
to married bliss, this book is dedicated. The 
writer trusts that it will meet with their 
thorough approval and that the information 
contained herein will prove both instructive and 
beneficial, as it is intended to supply a desid¬ 
eratum with respect to information, which, 
hitherto, has never been published in such com¬ 
pact form. 


SCIONS OF NOBLE PROGENITORS 


You boast of your thorobred horses. 

And prate of their breed at great length; 

A queen would be glad if the source of her birth 
Could be traced back to such an extent; 

You talk of your pure bred cattle, 

And your horses that make the pace; 

But what have you done, or going to do. 

To better the breed of your race? 


You talk of your Clydesdales and Herefords; 

The sire and the dam of your colt; 

You scoff at the scrub and the mongrel. 

As worthy the blockhead or dolt; 

You’re proud of your pure bred Durocs; 

Likewise of your stable and pen; 

But answer me this: what have you done, 

To better the breed of men ? 


Your Morgans, your Holsteins, your Berkshires; 

You’ll point them out fondly and say. 

The thorobred beats the mongrel and scrub. 

In making the homestead pay. 

The breed of your cattle, hogs, horses, 

To improve, day and night you have toiled; 
But what have you done, my brother, 

To improve the breed of your child? 


Oh Man I why are you so boastful, 

When counting your horses and steers? 
Why not spare time to think of your boy. 

And his needs for the coming years ? 

You scheme to better the breed of your stock; 

You are reaping the seeds you have sown; 
But what are you doing, my trusty friend, 
To better the breed of your own ? 


The breed, or strain of your horses. 

You’ll point to them always with pride, 
When demonstrating your worldly wealth, 
Which cannot be denied; 

You’ll count on your favorite roadster. 

As you do on your pasture, or pen; 

But you seemingly forget to count, my friend. 
On the worth of the children of men. 


Have you thought of your boy, or ascertained. 
His requirements for the growing years? 

Do you think, as his sire, your mark on his face 
Means less than the brand on your steers? 
Your watchword with stock is—“thorobred,” 
For paddock, stable, or pen; 

But what have you done, or going to do, 

To better the breed of men ? 



CONTENTS 


PART I 

LESSON I 
INTRODUCTION 

Invaluable sex facts arranged so that the reader may obtain the 
desired information readily. Lending a helping hand to men and 
women to offset prejudicial effects of polluted sex knowledge. Cor¬ 
recting erroneous ideals gained in youth. Conveying special message 
to either sex. The virtuous sister and the fallen Magdalen. The 
moral man and the profligate. An earnest attempt to make the 
burden of the fallen woman’s existence tolerable. Much immorality 
might be very easily prevented. Early sex instruction prevents 
young men and women straying from the paths of virtue. Mis¬ 
understanding of the reproductive organs causes a great deal of 
immorality. The dangers incident to lasciviousness in any form. 
The light of knowledge versus the darkness of ignorance. Why 
every young man and woman; every husband and wife; every father 
and mother should possess this knowledge.Page 17 


LESSON II 

LOVE AND MARRIAGE 

The power of love. Love in relation to affection, passion and the 
desire for procreation. The spontaneous impulse of procreation. The 
only legitimate means whereby love can be consummated in its 
entirely. The divorce court evil. Loveless marriages. Conjugal 
relation. The divorce court in its relation to the wedding festival. 
Unhappiness in marriage—cause and cure. Fixed principles. The 
mating instinct. Realizing the sad fact that marriage was a curse 
and not a blessing. Marriage the natural condition of the adult. 
The sacred flame of love. When love ceases to exist. Facts the 
young married couple must always remember.Page 25 

LESSON III 

ESSENTIAL SEX KNOWLEDGE 

Absurdidity of permitting young women to reach adolescence in 
complete ignorance of sex physiology. Dire results from unwise 
choice of spouse. Sad results of inherited venereal disease. Appar¬ 
ently normal individuals with inherited venereal disease. Inadvis¬ 
ability of choosing a husband or wife from diseased stock. Sexual 
desires in women normal. Woman’s emotional impulse. Effects on 
married women of unwarranted sex prejudices. Manifestation of the 
sexual impulse. Alcohol and abnormal sexual desires in women. 
Alcohol and woman’s downfall. Result of sex ignorance and parents’ 
neglect. The menstrual flow. Prudery and false modesty. Mysti¬ 
fying effects of “monthly period’’ due to ignorance. Marked curi¬ 
osity of children. Sad story of wealthy merchant’s daughter. Her 
earlier convent training. Her illness on return from Europe. Her 
first false step and resulting ignominy. Her mental anguish. The 
real facts in the case.Page 32 


LESSON IV 

VENEREAL DISEASE AND SEX IGNORANCE 

Why youth should be advised against cohabitation with loose, 
lewd women. Transmission of venereal diseases to wives and 
offspring. Inheriting a depraved sexual nature. Some diseases 


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traceable to heredity. Serious results as aftermath of venereal 
disease. Venereal disease and quack medicines. Venereal disease 
infectious. Chanchroid or soft chancre. Syphilis or hard chancre. 
Diseases which result from syphilis. Gonorrhea. Prostitution and 
venereal disease. Chronic gonorrheal infection. Transmission to 
innocents. Dire consequences of chronic gonorrhea. Recurrence of 
gonorrhea after apparent cure. Gonorrheal infection transmitted to 
children. Blindness of babies caused by gonorrheal infection. Sur¬ 
gical operations result of gonorrhea. Insanity and feeble-mindedness. 
Ovaries and fallopian tubes removed from gonorrheal infection. 
Paresis (softening of the brain) aftermath of syphilis.Page 49 


LESSON V 

MASTURBATION OR ONANISM 

Masturbation in relation to civilization. Origin of masturbation. 
Onanism practically unknown in savage lands. Why onanism is 
rarely adopted among savage tribes. The age at which the mas¬ 
turbation habit is usually cultivated. Effect of sex information on 
youth. Causes underlying this vice when very young. Ruinous 
methods of quieting children. Results of mingling with vicious 
playmates. Various devious methods used by masturbators. The 
confirmed masturbator. Never told tales of masturbators. Onanism 
in its relation to nymphomania (insane sexual desire in women). 
Hypochondriasis. Effects of onanism on health. Masturbation and 
excessive sexual intercourse. Unmistaken external signs of mas¬ 
turbation. Characteristics peculiar to masturbators. Epilepsy in 
relation to onanism. Lascivious dreams and nocturnal emissions. 
Manipulation of the genitals through ill-advised exercises. Examples 
of masturbation. Descendants of masturbators. Masturbation and 
tuberculosis. Summary .Page 57 


LESSON VI 

THE SOCIAL EVIL 

Harlotry or prostitution. Prostitution, a much abused term. Pros¬ 
titution in real sense of the word. Prostitution comprises women 
from all spheres of life. Cause underlying prostitution. Opinions 
of scientists. Man, the chief contributing cause. Masturbation and 
unbridled sex relation. Contrasting the habitue of “Red Light Dis¬ 
tricts” with the masturbator. The harlot, a victim of circumstances. 
Abnormal sexual desires cultivated in “House of Ill-fame.” Woman’s 
despair, error and debt. Women, unwept, unhonored and unsung. 
Result of woman’s false step. The old, old, sad story. Love’s mis¬ 
takes. Parlor houses and Dives. The social outcast. Indiscriminate 
sexual intercourse. Women who seek the bright lights of our cities. 
Temptations to be met with in large cities. The tempter. What the 
underworld proves. The profligate’s caresses. The young woman 
more sinned against than sinning. Women who are denied the 
happiness of childbirth. Early impiety. Women who have sinned 
and are repenting. So-called girlish pranks or lovers' mistakes. 
Profligacy. The skeleton in the closet. Conscience stricken, heart¬ 
sick women .Page 69 


LESSON VII 

IMMORALITY IN MARRIAGE 

Sensuality or lustfulness. Sensualism, not confined to men. Lust¬ 
fulness in women. Sensuality in women due to disease. The con¬ 
tinual craving for sexual excitement. Average woman less lustful 
than man. Man’s sex force greater than woman’s. Excessive vital 
sex force. Result of promiscuous sexual relation. Ignorance of the 


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laws of nature. Prostitution in and out of wedlock. A sin against 
nature. Frequency of the sex relation. Inadvisability of too fre¬ 
quent cohabitation. Frequency with which sexual congress should 
be consummated. The contrast between men in sex power. Opinion 
of leading member of medical profession. Incorrect impressions and 
diseased state of mind. Beneficial effects of sexual congress. Abuse 
of nature’s laws. Variation in man’s sexual desire. When sexual 
congress tones the system. Symptoms of beneficial effects. Warn¬ 
ings which manifest abuse. When intervals between cohabitation 
should be lengthened. Adaptation to nature’s laws. Right relation¬ 
ship. The writer’s comments.Page 79 


LESSON VIII 

MISTAKES OF THE BRIDEGROOM 

Advice to bride and bridegroom. Satiety kills love and wrecks 
marriage. Uncontrollable sex natures and weakness of generative 
organs. Happiness in marriage. Sacredness of marriage. Society 
blames the woman. Sensuality and immorality in marriage. Carnal 
gratifications. Intimacy of the marriage relation. A happy married 
union. Overindulgence on the bridal couch. Unnatural passion and 
wedded happiness. Effects of lustful embraces. Deformed ideals 
relative to the bridal chamber. Enforced slavery. Effects of 
husband’s lust on wife. Consummation of the sex relation. The 
marriage of a Malay merchant’s daughter. An ancient custom. 
Effects of marriage ceremony on average young woman. Advice to 
newly married husband or bridegroom. Warning to bridegroom, 
effect on young bride. Unadulterated love, life itself to 
woman...Page 89 


LESSON IX 

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MALE AND FEMALE 

REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 

Preliminary note. Knowledge of reproductive organs presented 
as perspicuously as possible. Result of sex ignorance and parents' 
neglect. Effects of false prejudice and antiquated custom. Woman’s 
moral character assailed. Abnormal condition. Sterility. Inguinal 
hernia. Reproductive Organs of the Male—Detailed description, 
function and location of the Penis; Scrotum; Testes or Testicles; 
Vas Deferens; Seminal Vesicle; Prostate Gland; Epididymis. Repro¬ 
ductive Organs of the Female—Detailed description, function and 
location of the Labia Major; Labia Minor; Gians Clitoris; Hymen; 
Oviduct or Fallopian Tubes; Vagina; Uterus; Ovaries. Sum¬ 
mary .Page 99 


LESSON X 

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION 

History of the individual organism, including germ cells, egg and 
spermatozoa. Description of the ovum (egg). Menstruation. Adol¬ 
escence. Menstrual period fully described from puberty to meno¬ 
pause. Menopause (change of life) and its various possible effects 
on health. Cancer symptoms. Irregularity of menstruation. 
Woman’s most critical period of life. Ovulation in relation to 
menstruation and pregnancy. Fertilization. History of spermatozoa 
in relation to the ovum (egg) and developing embryo. Abnormali¬ 
ties. Twin babies. Implantation. Life history of ovum after fer¬ 
tilization. Development. Development of the ovum to the embryonic 
stage. Beginning of the life of the fetus. Size and weight of the 


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fetus (unborn babe) month by month. Premature birth. Most 
dangerous period of gestation. The umbilical cord. Description of 
embryo and fetus in womb.Page 107 


LESSON XI 

CHILDBIRTH WITH CARE OF MOTHER AND CHILD 

Scientific description of childbirth. Description of pains attendant 
on childbirth. Contraction of the uterus. The uterus in its relation 
to the fetus (unborn child). Cause of lacerated perineum. Advice 
to mother giving childbirth. The placenta or afterbirth. Completion 
of labor or childbirth. Helpful hints after labor. Care of the baby. 
The umbilical cord. Urination. Contraction of the bladder. Cather- 
ization. Engorgement of the breast. Period required for uterus to 
undergo involution. Erroneous ideas relative to childbirth. Labor 
pains fully described. Position of fetus or baby immediately pre¬ 
ceding birth. Normal presentation of the baby. Various modifica¬ 
tions of presentation. Complications of labor are liable to occur. 
Childbirth in the absence of a physician. Childbirth, natural result 
of marriage relation. Helping birth in an emergency.Page 119 


LESSON XII 

PREGNANCY AND SEX DETERMINATION 

The pregnant period from conception to birth. Signs of pregnancy. 
Cessation of “monthly period.” Preventing accident. Advice to the 
pregnant woman. Timely advice to father and mother of first-born. 
The intimacy of mother and unborn babe. The mother’s influence on 
her offspring during pregnancy. Sex Determination. Dr. Sarah M. 
Hobson’s views on Sex Determination. Leading writer’s opinions on 
Sex Determination. Determining sex of the embryo. Outward 
influence in relation to the unborn child. Ideal conditions for child¬ 
birth rare. Future possibilities along the line of Sex Determination. 
The effect of prosperity and happiness in giving birth to a boy or a 
girl. Sex Determination in its relation to prosperous and contented 
mothers. Sex determination in its relation to full-blooded 
parents .Page 129 


LESSON XIII 

BIRTH CONTROL 

Abuse of the sexual functions. Nervous Breakdown. Contracep¬ 
tion. Continence. Semi-Continence. Preventive measures. Contra¬ 
ception and Abortion. Legitimate Birth Control. Education versus 
ignorance. Limitation of offspring. Birth Control methods judi¬ 
ciously used. Legitimation of Birth Control. The paternal and 
maternal instinct. Contraception—Use and abuse. Birth Control 
methods practiced openly. Race Suicide. Birth Control decreases 
mortality. Quality versus quantity. Birth Control improves the 
race. Birth Control lessens the possibility of physical and mental 
weaklings. Birth Control encourages early marriage. Decreased 
birth rate means decreased death rate. Sterilization. When steril¬ 
ization is necessary. Why some married men associate with lews 
women. Inadvisability of tampering with nature. Errors of ignor¬ 
ance. Advantages and disadvantages of Birth Control. When and 
where State laws approve of sterilization. Where sterilization is a 
State law and members of both sex are sterilized. Birth Control in 
its relation to race suicide. Sterility in women. Criminal Abortion. 
Birth Control versus Criminal Abortion. Secrecy of Criminal Abor¬ 
tion. Abortion unjustifiable. Results of Criminal Abortion. Results 
of too frequent childbirth. Summary .Page 138 


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PART II 

THE GIRL ON THE WRONG TRACK 

CHAPTER I 
CHOOSING THE PATH 

The modern girl—“the flapper.” The looseness and lasciviousness 
of the present age. “The Flapper” in her relation to intoxicants, 
cigarettes and narcotics. Questionable and immoral literature. Im¬ 
proper dancing. Extreme, suggestive mode of dress and personal 
adornment. Continuance of race a question of but a few genera¬ 
tions. The present younger generation. Facing a national scandal. 
Licentious living. Sensational personal indulgences. The pace that 
kills. The downward career. The erring girl who has fallen. 
Choosing the wrong path. The many pitfalls. The thrilling sensa¬ 
tions. The glaring lights. The short-lived joys never so alluring 
as they are today. “The Twin Beds Club.” Disillusioned, bedraggled 
Rosa Evans. Her sad story. Daughter of a poor Southern family. 
The wealthy and cultured farmer’s daughter. Her presentation ball. 
What happened afterwards. Discovered in hotel with male friend. 
The up-to-date girl who bobs her hair, picks her brows, rouges 
excessively, uses lip stick and perfumes palms of hands. The 
up-to-date woman who tries to look her best. Effects of rouge. 
Knee skirts and rolled stockings. Men, liquor and “dope.” The 
dangerous age of youth...Page 165 


CHAPTER II 

THE END OF THE WRONG TRACK 

The sad story of two chorus girls found on the water-front of 
one of our largest cities. Dressed in the ultra fashionable style of 
the day. Their bid for fame. Their desire for a good time. Their 
arrival in New York City. Late parties. Joy rides. Promiscuous 
attentions. Self-indulgence. Their departure from New York City. 
Their free, irresponsible lives with two male companions. Their 
stranger acquaintances. Their last joy-ride. Its disastrous effects. 
Their unhappy end. Victims of delusions. The pace that leads to 
inevitable ruin. Many girls who take the wrong step. 

The Story of Jean: A tragedy. The writer’s actual exo°riences 
in a fashionable apartment house on Chicago’s North Side. Wakened 
out of deep sleep at late hour. Suspicions aroused. My acquaintance 
with Jean K., the little actress. A charming girl. My first impulse. 
Jean’s false step. Her magnetic and appealing beauty. Her great 
trouble and helplessness. Her stage career, home, parents and hus¬ 
band. Her wealthy gentleman friend. Her sudden illness. The 
physician’s reply to her rich admirer. The allurements that beset 
her path. The good times another man’s money brought her. Her 
illegal operation. Her agony and death. Her story as it came out 
bit by bit after her death. 

What Will Become of Louise? How I became acquainted with 
the case of Louise M. Daughter of wealthy parents. Why she 
insisted on working in a State Street department store. Her antici¬ 
pated divorce. Her fear of conception through illicit intercourse 
with head of her department. A false alarm. Her feeling of relief. 
Physician’s advice. Louise’s attempt to secure physician’s services 
for her girl friends in trouble. Lost womanhood. Cause of many 
girls’ downfall. The White Slave Traffic. Silk stockings and silk 
lingerie. Why girls sell themselves. Sensational and depraved 
pleasures. Desperate measures brought on by whip of want. 

What of Ruth? My acquaintance with Ruth. An unusual office 
girl of gentility and refinement. Ruth’s gentlemen friends. Her 
odd preference. Her feigned illness. Nervous Breakdown. Her 
admirer’s influence on Ruth and her position. The similarity of her 
case with that of Jean, the little French actress. Ruth’s admission 


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to the writer. Six months later. Her dyed hair and excessive 
rouge. Her fine possibilities. The wrong track. 

Poor Annie D.: A very sad case. Her first hotel experiences with 
a Mr. W., whose wife she posed as. Drinking parties. Arrival of 
Annie D.’s husband, Charles D., upon the scene. What took place. 
His reception at hotel. The treatment meted out to Charles D. at 
hotel. Annie D.’s broken health and shattered nerves. Her hus¬ 
band’s loyalty. Their departure from hotel. Three weeks later. 
Annie D. and Mr. W. Their departure from hallway leading to 
rooms in a questionable district.Page 174 


CHAPTER III 
JAZZ AND SHIMMY 

“Jazz” music and “Shimmy” dances. Effects. Sex stimulating 
strains and feeble-minded morality. Unfortunate girls. 1,000 cases 
investigated. Disease and degeneracy. Pitiful stories of demoral¬ 
izing effects of “Jazz.” Morals Court. Hardened prostitutes. Sex 
infuriating music. Cites pitiful case. Sad history of girl born in 
Chicago of good parents. Frequenter of “Jazz” dances. Her first 
indiscretion. Her life of promiscuity. Her illicit sexual intercourse 
with men even in halls and corridors of dance hall building. Her 
infatuation and subsequent desertion. Her final discovery in dis¬ 
orderly flat with Negroes. Her restoration to home and parents. 
Girls ruined at dances. Over 150 cases of illegitimacy where con¬ 
ception took place on stairways and corridors in “Jazz” dance halls. 
The “Jazz” music route. A Chicago dance hall and the “Red Light 
District”—A comparison. Demonstration of immorality and in¬ 
decency in every imaginable form. Expensive hotels and so-called 
society circles, and “Jazz.” Evils in dance halls—“Jazz.” Evils in 
auto rides. High Schools and Moral Subnormality. “Jazz” music, 
“Shimmy” dances. Joy-riding and Immodest dressing. Flay “Jazz” 
music. Chicago Daily Journal’s comments on Supt. P. A. Morten- 
son’s report to school board. Boys maintaining apartments in 
fashionable residential districts for girl students and others following 
joy-rides after dances. Apartments supported by boys as home for 
certain girls. A city pool-room which brought boy and girl students 
together for questionable purposes. The “Jazz” road to ruin. 
“Jazz” music and improper dancing. The downfall of girls devoted 
to “Jazz” music. Introduction of ultra dance to a rural community 
in Arkansas by local minister’s daughter and male acquaintance 
home from college. Effects of “Jazz” in Iowa. Fly-by-night dance 
halls. Disreputable “Jazz” resorts. Epidemic of immorality. The 
barn dance. The platform dance. Demoralizing effect of “Jazz.” 
Improprieties due to “Jazz”.Page 192 

CHAPTER IV 

OUR GIRLS AND THE DRUG HABIT 

“Snow” (Cocaine) parties. Opium joints. Morphine dens. Studio 
gatherings. Narcotic associates. First opium pipe smoked by white 
person in U. S. Table showing drugs used in various countries. 
How and when habit is established. Mr. Dana Hubbard’s remarks 
on Drug Addiction. Illegitimate traffic. Whom to avoid. How to 
tell a drug addict. Men—Drug Addicts young women should beware 
of. Men and women drug addicts young men and women should be 
on their guard against at all hazards. 

The Story of Florence Burns: “I would kill to get money for 
drugs. For God’s sake help me,” this girl said to Dr. Simon. High 
School graduate of good family. Florence had been on stage until 
wrecked by drugs. Begged to be sent away. Her experiences with 
drug vendors. Her anticipated crime. New York’s East Side. Girls 
ruined body and soul. 

The Story of Dorothy Wilson: Wellesley Graduate. Dorothy 
received $40,000 inheritance from Father. Her departure for Kansas 


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City. How she contracted morphine habit. Married and divorced. 
Her Chicago experiences. All her money went for drugs. Inheritance 
all spent. Her eternal craving. Her arrest for forgery. Death of 
Dorothy’s companion. How Dorothy saved her own life in a similar 
escapade. Dorothy tells of murder cases reported as suicides. .. .206 


CHAPTER V 

RESTORATION OF GIRLS 

The runaway girl. The police department and apprehension of 
girls. The Juvenile Court. The Municipal Court. The Chicago 
Juvenile Protective League and the delinquent girl. The Juvenile 
Detention Home. Advice to friends of girls lost in our large cities. 
Utmost secrecy in Girls’ Court, with Woman Judge presiding. 
Actual cases taken from the Chicago Juvenile Protective League 
files. Each one a sordid, complete story in itself. The case of 
Alice B. Found in house on West Adams Street, Chicago. The case 
of Edith K. Picked up at Union Station. The case of Emma B. 
and Corinne Miller. Attempted rape. Their experiences with two 
young men on an auto riding trip. Case of Belle H. Picked up by 
Detention Officer. Case of Dorothy Marie and Lillian Buckley. 
Arrested in company with two men in a rooming house on Prairie 
Avenue, Chicago. How delinquent girls under 18 years of age are 
treated in Chicago. How similar girls over 18 years of age are 
treated...Page 213 


CHAPTER VI 

THE MAD DOWNWARD RUSH 

Scars on the soul-—Scars on the brain. Effects of early mis-living. 
Clouded after-life. The everlasting defense. Indulgence and in¬ 
difference. Getting the “dough.” Heart impulses. A heart prob¬ 
lem. This day and age. Dancing. Dolling up. “Chasing ’round.” 
The Evil One. Automobiling with pleasure seeking men. The Angel 
of Darkness. Vanity. Lust. Self-indulgence. Paint, powder and 
perfumes. Empty pride. The fast slipping younger generation. 
The extravagantly, self-indulgent family. Demanding “the best.” 
Restitution. The cradle of the race. Love, the fountain head of 
culture and civilization. Indulgently loved. “Whatsoever ye would 
that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.” The bed 
chamber. Personal pleasures. Men and money. Temptations. Dis¬ 
carding the old wife for the new. Romantic by-play by the wife of 
a trusting husband. Hot pursuit of pleasure more alluring than 
bearing children. What will your harvest be?.Page 222 


PART III 

HOME ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALTH 

SICKROOM MANAGEMENT .Page 233 

SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF VARIOUS 

DISEASES .Page 237 

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DISEASES AND THEIR 

TREATMENT .Page 244 

SIMPLE EFFECTIVE CURES IN LATIN AND ENGLISH. .Page 246 

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POISONS WITH ANTIDOTES 

FOR IMMEDIATE USE .Page 249 

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DRUGS IN LATIN AND 

ENGLISH .Page 262 

TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES USED IN PRE¬ 
PARING MEDICINE .Page 264 


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ILLUSTRATIONS 


PLATE PAGE 

I The Skeletal System of the Human Body. ... 24 

II Viscera of the Pleural and the Abdominal 

cavities. 31 

III Section of the Body showing the relation of 

the internal organs to each other. 48 

IV The Blood vessels of the Body. 68 

V Showing Central Peripheral and Sympathetic 

Nervous Systems. 80 

VI Posterior view of Trunk. 90 

VII Brain viewed from Ventral Surface and in 

Sagittal Section *. 130 

VIII Relation of the pancreas to spleen and other 

organs of the human structure. 230 

IX Principal bones of Trunk, Arm and Forearm. . 236 

X Principal Muscles of Trunk, and Upper Ex¬ 
tremities with Arterial Supply. 243 











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Sta ndard 

Sex Knowledge 
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Standard Sex Knowledge and 
Health Encyclopedia 


PART I 


LESSON I 

INTRODUCTION 

In the preparation of this work the chief aim 
has been to present, in as perspicuous a form as 
possible, information which, hitherto, has never 
been published in such compact form. It would 
be impossible to cover, in detail, the compre¬ 
hensive field with which this volume deals, as 
to do so would, in reality, bewilder, rather than 
help, the average reader. The writer has there¬ 
fore endeavored, by the elimination of all irrele¬ 
vant matter, to reduce this edition to a concise, 
condensed, yet exhaustive work, solidifying and 
arranging its contents, so that the reader may 
obtain the desired information readily, thereby 
enhancing its value, by minimizing its size, with¬ 
out impairing its integrity. 

In presenting this revised edition to the pub¬ 
lic, it might be well to mention that considerable 



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changes have been made, not only in the subject 
matter which it contains, but in its illustrated 
section. Several of the chapters have been com¬ 
pletely revised, which with the addition of some 
new matter, and increased number of illustra¬ 
tions, makes this volume much more complete. 
For authenticity and completeness of subject 
matter, this book, in the writer’s opinion, com¬ 
pares very favorably with any publication on the 
market today. 

The facts contained herein have been gath¬ 
ered from the most reliable and indisputable 
sources and collated with interminable care and 
patience. In order to save valuable space, 
thereby making it possible to put this volume 
before the public at a nominal cost, it was im¬ 
perative, owing to the vast territory, so to speak, 
which it covers, to omit superfluous matter, 
usually indulged in by a good many writers on 
this all-important subject, and which, as already 
stated, bewilders, rather than benefits the aver¬ 
age reader. Elaboration, or, in other words, 
introduction of irrelevant matter, when writing 
on this subject, has no redeeming feature what¬ 
soever, otherwise than further dividing the gap, 
which, unhappily, already exists, to a far 
greater extent than the average reader is aware 
of, throughout our country, between knowledge 
and ignorance on this vital subject. 

In the preparation of this work the writer has 
kept the aforementioned fact before his mind at 
all times. The reader will therefore undoubt- 


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edly notice omissible features here and there, 
due to the fact that ambiguity is conspicuous by 
its absence. It were imperative that this condi¬ 
tion obtain in order to further epitomize the 
contents of this edition. It is hardly necessary 
to go much further here in an explanatory way 
on the contents and merits of this volume. It 
might be well to state however that, notwith¬ 
standing the fact that the knowledge contained 
within these pages may be read with benefit to 
all, this volume has been prepared especially for 
the purpose of lending a helping hand to the 
many men and many women, young, middle- 
aged, and old, in practically every walk of life 
who, through prejudice and custom, handed 
down from the middle ages, are prevented from 
receiving even the most elementary education 
on sexual physiology. The greater number of 
these men and women invariably obtained their 
information in early manhood or womanhood 
either from those incapable of giving advice on 
this subject which is of such vital importance 
to the future of the race, or from some polluted 
source, excepting, of course, somewhat similar 
literature from the hands of those who, like the 
writer, believe that knowledge of, at least, the 
fundamental elements of sex are a prerequisite 
to the ultimate complete happiness of the indi¬ 
vidual and, as a logical result a lasting benefit 
to society. To correct whatever erroneous ideals 
or wrong impressions may have been gained in 
youth, is one of the main objects of this work. 


20 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


The writer wishes it distinctly understood that 
this volume was not got up to appeal to the 
emotional nature. The man or woman, who 
peruses this book with this purpose in view, or 
to excite a morbid degree of emotional activity, 
will be keenly disappointed. Betterment of ex¬ 
isting conditions in society, for the benefit of 
the race in general, is the sole purpose for which 
this work was published. It deals, if somewhat 
briefly, on practically every phase of the vital 
subject of sex. The individual of either sex, 
who leads a clean, moral life, or their contempo¬ 
raries who have departed either temporarily or 
permanently from the paths of virtue, will find 
the information contained within those pages, 
both instructive and interesting, as well as bene¬ 
ficial. To either of the aforementioned a special 
message is conveyed and if the attention of the 
erring one has been caught and held for only 
one brief moment the writer will feel that his 
efforts have not been entirely wasted. 

If down into the brooding gloom of the life 
of the fallen Magdalen one ray of blessed light 
has penetrated; if a little gleam of coming hope 
has faintly illumined the darkness of the erring 
one’s existence, or a little ray of blessed sun¬ 
light has crept through the clouds, which might 
make the burden of the fallen woman’s exis¬ 
tence tolerable, even for the passing moment 
the writer will consider he has, at least, received 
some compensation for his labor and attempted 
uplift. If perusal of these pages by the young 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 21 


man and young woman, especially the latter, 
whether married or living a life of single 
blessedness, prevents darkened homes and 
tender ties from being broken, and which, 
though silent, speak, in themselves, of a vast 
amount of suffering, misery land sorrow, in 
forms which, in the greater majority of in¬ 
stances, receive less than a just share of pity, 
sympathy, and consideration, the writer will 
consider he has not wrought in vain. 

Observation by the writer has impressed him, 
very forcibly, with the fact that much immo¬ 
rality might be very easily prevented. This, of 
course, might be said of any of the other sins of 
society; it might be said of crime; it might be 
said of disease; it might be said of many and 
various forms of evil, but it seems to be pe¬ 
culiarly true in respect to immoral practices. 
Although the writer does not think, opinions to 
the contrary notwithstanding, that immorality 
is on the increase, it is, nevertheless, sufficiently 
evident to justify alarm, and to call for serious 
inquiry into the causes and for means of preven¬ 
tion. Early instruction, when the mind is most 
plastic, on the fundamental elements which 
govern their existence, would, in the writer's 
opinion, tend greatly to diminish the possibili¬ 
ties and probabilities of the young man, in later 
life, resorting to immoral practices and the 
young woman straying from the paths of virtue. 

Erroneous ideals formed in youth and mis¬ 
taken ideas or wrong impressions gained from 


22 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


older associates or depraved adults on the func¬ 
tions of the reproductive organs have a great 
deal to do with young men and young women 
leading immoral lives. The dangers incident 
to the latter are brought out in the following 
pages and should, in themselves, be sufficient 
excuse to deter any young man or any young 
woman from indulging in lewdness, or lasciv¬ 
iousness in any form. One of the leading objects 
of this work is an earnest attempt to lead the 
adult man and woman towards the light of 
knowledge and away from the darkness of ig¬ 
norance, and an endeavor to turn the thoughts 
of parents, teachers, and others, who are espe¬ 
cially responsible for the training of the young, 
in the same direction, thereby facilitating the 
progress already made by our advanced think¬ 
ers and writers on sex physiology. 

In conclusion it might be said, due to the 
authenticated fact that ignorance of sex physi¬ 
ology predominates to such an extent through¬ 
out the length and breadth of the land, that this 
work is of incalculable value to every young 
man and every young woman, every husband 
and every wife, every father and every mother 
and should take a leading place in the library of 
every household. The writer owes a debt of 
gratitude to his contemporaries in the medical 
profession, college professors, etc., who so will¬ 
ingly furnished the indispensable knowledge 
which made this work possible. In extending 
his thanks and expressing his appreciation for 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 23 


the cordial assistance and courteous treatment 
received from aforementioned gentlemen, the 
writer wishes it expressly understood that, 
were it not for their generous support this 
edition would have been beyond the realms of 
possibility. 







24 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


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LESSON II 

LOVE AND MARRIAGE 

Love, in its truest sense, is paramount to all 
the other gifts, which a wise and kindly nature 
has bestowed upon man to the exclusion of 
every other living creature. When nature en¬ 
dowed mankind with the power of love, there 
was left in his possession one of the most effi¬ 
cacious, if, to a certain extent, involuntary 
agencies for absolute happiness or destruction. 
Love makes the world go around. It can cause 
the upheaval and demolition of society, or help 
its upbuild and consolidation. It can kindle the 
flame of deadly warfare, and change the destiny 
of empires. It is beyond the question of a doubt, 
the most potent agency which governs the exist¬ 
ence of mankind. Some writers claim that love 
and passion are two distinct, separate embodi¬ 
ments of the human structure and should not be 
construed as one and the same, or classed under 
the same heading. The writer, however, begs to 
differ with this statement and wishes to quote 
the following in favor of his conclusions: The 
attributes of human love are complex, its com¬ 
ponent parts being, primarily, composed of af¬ 
fection, passion and the natural desire for pro¬ 
creation, which last is ever uppermost in the 
human structure and which blends into a perfect 
whole, two natures to constitute the love which 


26 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


is essentially human. The spontaneous impulse 
of procreation to act for the individual good, or 
the paternal and maternal instinct of the male 
and female respectively, is an absolute prerequi¬ 
site to love in its fullest sense, without which, 
real, true love would be conspicuous by its ab¬ 
sence, leaving nothing but affection to take its 
place. The marriage relation is, therefore, the 
only legitimate means whereby love can be con¬ 
summated in its entirety. 

The Divorce Court Evil. The question has 
been, and will, undoubtedly, be asked until the 
end of time, why it is that so many marriages 
are a failure, ending in the divorce courts in 
many instances in preference to living a life of 
infelicity, social drudgery and degradation? 
Why the loveless marriages are so numerous in 
this century of enlightenment, may very well 
be asked. This is a question which is troubling 
the minds of many. It might also be said to be 
one of the most perplexing problems of the pres¬ 
ent day and one, the solution of which, is of vital 
interest to the future success and welfare of the 
whole civilized race. The writer, with the 
voluntary aid of some of our most successful, 
conservative medical practitioners, philanthro¬ 
pists and humanitarians, ventures to undertake 
the solution of this momentous problem. 

The world at large knows, unquestionably, 
that present day marriages are far from being 
the ideal union, society would have them be, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 27 


notwithstanding the fact that chastity reaps its 
just rewards. A thorough understanding of the 
marriage proper and conjugal relation between 
man and wife cannot fail to bring happiness, in 
the fullest sense of the word, where chasteness 
is looked upon as next to godliness. Statistics 
prove that, among some of our most respectable 
communities, at least one out of every two mar¬ 
riages ends in failure. The divorce court plays 
an important part in marriage failures. The in¬ 
numerable desertions and other unhappy unions 
help to swell the number. 

The divorce court has become so popular of 
recent years, that it has prompted one of our 
well-known humorists, in one of his character¬ 
istic facetious moods, to issue the following 
pleasantry: “Although divorce and marriage 
are antagonistic towards each other, the former 
will never outnumber the latter.” Notwith¬ 
standing the fact that there are many unhappy 
unions where complete separation, or legal dis¬ 
solution of the matrimonial bonds are an abso¬ 
lute requisite to the ultimate happiness of the 
individual it is nevertheless cause for alarm 
when we realize what a close competitor the 
divorce court is to the wedding festival. As long 
as the dominating feature of the marriage union 
is wholly passion and entered into to gratify this 
instinct alone, so long will the divorce court 
function with aforementioned results and so 
long will unhappy marriages be the order of 
the day. 


28 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Fixed Principles. Physical, mental and spirit¬ 
ual cleanliness are the fundamental principles 
which should guide the young man and young 
woman anticipating wedlock. It is always well 
to have certain fixed guiding principles to go by 
and they will find them of incalculable value in 
realizing the full fruits of a happy and success¬ 
ful marriage. Without the guidance of these 
absolutely necessary qualifications, the marri¬ 
age bond, so happily entered into, will end in 
unhappiness and complete failure. The mating 
instinct, which in itself makes sex attraction of 
paramount importance, being strongly em¬ 
bodied in the structure of every living being, it 
behooves members of either sex to look well be¬ 
fore they leap into the bonds of matrimony, lest 
they realize, when it is too late, the sad fact 
that their marriage was a curse instead of a 
blessing. 

Notwithstanding the many present day di¬ 
vorces, unhappy unions, desertions, etc., already 
referred to and the discontent, dissatisfaction, 
disloyalty and inconsistency to be met with in 
married life, and the arguments brought forth, 
occasionally, to picture marriage as a complete 
failure, by many of those, who, either through 
being mis-mated or through unhappiness caused 
by a misunderstanding of each other or ignor¬ 
ance of the natural laws governing conjugal re¬ 
lation, it must be conceded that the marital 
union, is indubitably, the only form of coalition 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 29 


of the sexes, which can bring lasting success 
and happiness. 

It is an acknowledged fact that marriage, be¬ 
ing the natural condition of the adult, brings 
everything worth while in human nature to the 
front. Our greatest, brainest and best lay great 
stress on the fact that it was the contentment, 
happiness and encouragement they met with in 
their married state, which were primarily re¬ 
sponsible for their success in life. There are 
innumerable instances on record, which go to 
prove, beyond all question of a doubt, that a 
harmonious marital union is an absolute requi¬ 
site to the complete happiness and success of 
the individual. 

Love—A Sacred Flame. One point, which 
everyone, irrespective of sex, would do well to 
impress very firmly upon their minds, especially 
young wives and young husbands and those that 
expect to be married, is the erroneous idea that 
true love never dies. This is one of the gravest 
mistakes of married life. Love will wither and 
decay just as the flower plucked from the 
garden bed, if neglected. Love is a sacred flame 
which has to be fed with the fuel of human kind¬ 
ness, faithfulness, affection and a desire to make 
the best of things at all hazards. Without this 
fuel it will languish and die, just as the flame 
from the furnace fire will smolder and cease to 
throw forth warmth if not supplied with the es¬ 
sential heat producing elements. The young 


30 


STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


married couple must always remember that this 
world is not a bed of roses. When the young 
bridal couple start out on life's stormy path they 
should bear well in mind, notwithstanding the 
fact that exquisite bliss and happiness is their 
present allotment from heaven and that they 
have sworn absolute fidelity and eternal love 
towards each other for ever and a day, that 
many things are liable to occur to mar the 
happiness, which seems to be without end. 
There will be many ups and downs; many 
obstacles to surmount; many crosses to be met 
with; there may be petty jealousies to contend 
with, and love will be sorely tried betimes. 
Those are some of the divers occasions when 
the power of love will be put to the test. An 
indiscreet word or action at those vital moments 
may wreck the very foundation of love. A kind 
word of encouragement or loving embrace, as 
the case warrants, should fill the gap. You 
should express, whatever loving sentiments that 
you may feel towards each other, on every pos¬ 
sible occasion. You should not neglect the many 
little courtesies, lover’s embraces and kisses. 
In other words, you should make your married 
life one long courtship, not an occasional one, 
lest the holy, sacred flame of love may smolder 
and die, and once dead, may never be rekindled. 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 31 


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32 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


LESSON III 

ESSENTIAL SEX KNOWLEDGE 

Any reliable authority will tell you that 
illness peculiar to women, including the various 
diseases of the genitals, associated with sexual 
excesses, with their classification, treatment, 
etc., would require a distinct, separate volume 
in itself. We have therefore treated on this 
subject very lightly. Sufficient mention has 
however been made and facts given in this book 
to justify us in the belief that women in general 
will be greatly benefited by the knowledge im¬ 
parted throughout its pages. 

Every business and profession of today re¬ 
quires special training, if proficiency is the goal 
to be reached. This same rule should apply to 
the young man and young woman branching out 
into manhood and womanhood. Especially is 
such a training an absolute prerequisite to suc¬ 
cessful, happy motherhood. We sit idly by and 
allow the young woman of today to enter into 
the bonds of matrimony without any previous 
training and, in the greater number of instances, 
in complete ignorance of sex psysiology, not¬ 
withstanding the fact that we would not think 
of this young woman in any other special line of 
endeavor without proper training in such a 
sphere of life. With such conditions dominating 
present day society, can it be any cause for 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 33 


wonder that there is so much illness among 
women of today, due, admittedly, to heredity in 
some cases, but to ignorance of the fundamental 
principles regarding sex anatomy and the physi¬ 
ological functions concerning her sex life, in a 
goodly number of instances. Can there be any¬ 
thing more absurd than to consider sex educa¬ 
tion, along this line, prejudicial to a young 
woman's welfare. 

The writer will not go into womans' illness, 
in detail, here. Enough has been said, whereby 
the average man and woman, who peruses this 
work and profits thereby, and who is careful in 
all other respects, may lead a happy married 
life and reap the full benefits of the nuptial 
blessing bestowed upon them. “The best laid 
plans of men and mice gang-aft-agly." This 
might be said to be as true of married life as of 
any other project and this maxim is just as 
applicable to the marriage union as to any 
other sphere of life. Nevertheless, extreme pre¬ 
caution should be used when choosing the father 
or mother of your offspring. This should espe¬ 
cially apply to the young woman anticipating 
wedlock. Many a young woman has been prac¬ 
tically ruined for life, physically and mentally, 
by her choice of a spouse. “Look well before 
you leap" is a very good maxim to apply. Good 
looks or wealth do not always bring happiness. 
There are many angles to consider, which it 
would be well for every young woman to dwell 


34 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


upon seriously. Diseases can be prevalent, even 
in some of the best families. 

There are many normal individuals in our 
midst with one or other of their parents 
physically or mentally impaired, or both, to a 
more or less greater extent, as the result of 
venereal disease, contracted or inherited. 
Although such individuals may be decidedly 
normal in every respect, it is very inadvisable, 
due to the fact that they have descended from 
diseased stock, to choose a partner from among 
them. Happy, healthy children are the natural 
result of marriage. Happiness and health is the 
birthright of every child. If only for this reason 
alone, the average healthy young man or woman 
would not think of choosing a mate suffering 
from tuberculosis. It is a common occurrence 
to find a normal, healthy man or woman with a 
father, mother, sister or brother incapacitated 
more or less with inherited disease, such as 
syphilis, paresis, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, 
paronia, praecox and other forms of insanity 
and disease. We have been often warned 
against and shown the inadvisability of mating 
with an individual suffering from the white 
plague, if we desire healthy offspring, but, due 
to the cloak of secrecy which covers everything 
pertaining to the sexual organs, their use and 
abuse, etc., we rarely ever are told, or hear of 
the frightful results of mating with the indi¬ 
vidual who has inherited some physical or 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 35 


mental weakness as the result of venereal dis¬ 
ease contracted by the parent, but who was 
fortunate enough to escape the actual blemish, 
only to have it passed on, in all probability, to 
the next generation. To marry the young man 
or young woman from such a family is really a 
crime against civilization, due to the fact that, 
although the individual in question is seemingly 
normal in every respect, the disease inherited 
and with which some member of the family may 
be stricken, is very apt to be transmitted to your 
children. In order to prevent the possibility of 
such a union it would be well to study the family 
history of the young man or young woman you 
anticipate choosing for a life partner before 
taking the final step. It is of the highest im¬ 
portance that anyone anticipating wedlock be 
on his or her guard against contracting mar¬ 
riage into a family where symptoms of inherited 
weakness, as the result of some social disease, 
has shown itself. Even if your wedding en¬ 
gagement has already been announced, you 
would be well advised to cancel it before it is 
too late, if you wish to offset the possibilities of 
becoming the parent of diseased offspring. 

A very good illustration of what may happen 
where a marriage takes place with one of the 
contracting parties apparently normal in every 
respect, but whose parent was a victim of social 
disease in his earlier manhood, is the case of 
John X. 

John was, to all outward appearances, a 


36 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


healthy, robust young man of twenty-six years 
old when he became acquainted with and 
shortly afterwards married a healthy, happy 
specimen of young womanhood, Elsie Z. It was 
considered a perfect union by their friends and 

acquaintances, many of whom had known them 
since childhood. They both loved each other 
and had sufficient interests in common to 
become more and more attached to each other 
as the years rolled by. Exactly thirteen months 
from their wedding day the wife gave birth to 
a baby boy, which seemed the happiest moment 
of the young lives of both father and mother. 
Their love and affection seemed to grow more 
intense towards each other, if that were 
humanely possible, with the coming of the 
happy event. The child, to all outward appear¬ 
ances, gradually developed, physically and 
mentally, the first three years of its life. In 
the meantime the happy mother gave birth to 
a baby girl, who, a few months after birth, 
began to suffer from convulsions, which necessi¬ 
tated a call for the physician, who diagnosed 
the baby’s case as one of epilepsy, or epileptic 
convulsions, from which the little girl died 
shortly afterwards. 

On visiting the family shortly after the death 
of the last born, to treat the mother for a minor 
complaint, the physician’s attention was drawn 
to their baby boy, who, after a thorough exam¬ 
ination, was proven to be an imbecile, necessi¬ 
tating the boy’s incarceration in a State institu- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 37 


tion for the febble-minded, whereupon the 
physcian decided to pry into the history of the 
parents. On investigating the family history it 
was discovered that the grandfather, on the pa¬ 
ternal side, had been temporarily discharged 
from a sanitarium, in which he had been incar¬ 
cerated several months, where he was generally 
supposed to have been treated for nervous 
strain, brought on by overwork. 

The real facts in the case however were that 
this man had contracted syphilis several years 
previous to his marriage, but believed he had 
effected a cure. (See Lesson IV, “Venereal 
Disease and Sex Ignorance.”) His incarcera¬ 
tion in aforementioned sanitarium was simply 
due to the fact that his syphilitic condition had 
developed into paresis, which disease has been 
found to be incurable. A paretic patient, in the 
earlier stages of the disease, whose condition is 
such as to necessitate his removal, or committal 
to a sanitarium, or other institution for treat¬ 
ment, may recover his mental and physical 
powers to such an extent as to merit a parole or 
temporary discharge. Even those instances are 
exceptional and are then only possible under 
the most favorable circumstances, as paretic 
patients decline rapidly, both physically and 
mentally, and invariably succumb to the disease 
in a very few years. 

Sexual Desires in Women Normal. Much has 
been said, in another part of this book, of the 


38 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


sex manifestations of the male and female. The 
contrast, when drawn, as already stated, is very 
perceptible. This is only as it should be, for 
obvious reasons. We trust that our readers will 
not misinterpret our meaning in this direction. 
We do not wish to convey the impression that 
the sex impulse is not strongly developed in the 
average healthy woman. The emotional im¬ 
pulse for procreation, or creative energy, 
although seemingly dormant in the woman, due 
to her acquired habits of self-control, can be 
transmuted by the female, under favorable cir¬ 
cumstances, just as forcibly as by the male. The 
erroneous idea formed by a good many women, 
particularly the younger women, that it is neces¬ 
sary to pretend the emotional impulse for pro¬ 
creation, when, at certain times, it is really con¬ 
spicuous by its absence, is altogether very 
wrong, just as much as pretending that mani¬ 
festation of the normal sexual desire is absent 
when sexual intercourse is really desired and 
the creative impulse strongly manifested within 
her. 

Absurd teachings by older companions pos¬ 
sibly and wrongful impressions gained through 
unwarranted prejudices, have a great deal to do 
with these unnatural conditions, whereby the 
young married woman is fearful, on the one 
hand, of being considered immoral or depraved 
or, on the other hand, lacking in the normal 
sexual feeling. The married woman should be 
guided by nature’s laws and act accordingly, by 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 39 


being natural in her thoughts and actions at all 
times. The unmarried woman should bring her 
will-power to bear whenever she feels or ex¬ 
periences the manifestation of the sexual im¬ 
pulse. She should acquire self-control at all 
hazards, just as much, if not more, than in any 
other phase of her existence. The sexual ap¬ 
petite, or desire for procreation, is a natural one 
and there is therefore no reason why the mar¬ 
ried woman should not appease her sexual de¬ 
sires as she would her normal desires in any 
other direction. If she had no appetite for food 
she would not partake thereof. Then why at¬ 
tempt to hide from her husband the fact that she 
does or does not, as the case warrants, desire 
pleasure from the sexual relation. 

So much for the normal sexual impulses in 
women. Now let us treat awhile on the ab¬ 
normal sexual desires in the female; their cause 
and cure. 

Alcohol and Abnormal Sexual Desires in 
Women. With the exception of inherited traits 
in this direction, which are few and far be¬ 
tween and a diseased condition of the pro- 
creative organs, abnormal sexual desires in 
women are far less pronounced in the female 
than in the male. Under certain conditions 
however abnormal sexual desires may be as 
pronounced in women as in men and in a good 
many cases, more so. Let us take for in¬ 
stance the young woman who indulges for the 


40 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


first time in alcoholic stimulants, either at the 
request of some so-called particular male friend 
or of her own accord, which latter however is 
of very rare occurrence, the tempter, in the form 
of some male acquaintance, invariably being 
the cause of the young woman's first alcoholic 
drink. In nearly every instance the means by 
which the young woman secured her first alco¬ 
holic drink, or beverage, shall we say, was also 
the means by which she was eventually seduced, 
alcohol being one of the most powerful agents 
towards the downfall of any young woman and 
the most potent agency in the hands of the se¬ 
ducer. Its efficaciousness is ever powerful as 
an ally of the profligate, seducer or pimp, and, 
under certain circumstances, a deadly enemy of 
chastity. There are some forms of alcohol which 
have a tendency to excite the sexual passions 
and stimulate the sexual organs beyond what 
nature intended the procreative impulse for. 
Chief among these might be listed the following, 
which include champagne, port and sherry 
wines, gins, brandies, whiskies, etc. 

Champagne is a favorite ally of the de¬ 
bauchee, or libertine in seducing young women, 
due to the fact, principally, that it is more 
palatable, more easily assimilated into the sys¬ 
tem and may be partaken of more readily with¬ 
out the drastic or nauseating effects which 
accompany other alcoholic stimulants. Gin, due 
to its general stimulating effects, especially 
upon the kidneys, has been much in vogue. 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 41 


Port and sherry wines, brandies, whiskies, etc. 
all play a very important part in producing 
abnormal sexual desires, especially so in the 
case of the woman, considerably more so than 
in the man, due principally to the physical char¬ 
acteristics of the former. Just as morphine, 
cocaine, and other similar narcotics have a more 
powerful effect on the woman than the man, 
so has alcoholic beverages of all kinds, in excit¬ 
ing the sexual passions beyond the normal stage. 
Every young woman should therefore be on her 
guard against alcohol in any form and refuse, 
absolutely, to touch intoxicating liquors of any 
kind outside of her own household and par¬ 
ticularly in the company of a male stranger or 
so-called acquaintance. 

Result of Sex Ignorance and Parents Neglect. 

Although we have gone into this subject more 

i 

deeply in another part of this book it might be 
well to state here a few facts relative to the 
menstrual flow, or “monthly period,” as it is 
more familiarly known. 

The writer knows, from past experience and 
acquired knowledge, to what extent prudery 
and false modesty will go in the rearing of 
children. The extreme care that is taken by a 
good many parents in preventing, in every way 
possible, their boys and girls from obtaining 
even the most rudimentary elements of sex 
knowledge, is really ridiculous, and were it not 
of such serious import, would be highly amusing 


42 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


and laughable. It may seem strange to relate, 
but it is nevertheless a well proven fact that 
many young women enter into the stage of pu¬ 
berty in absolute ignorance of the cause and 
reasons for the menstrual flow, or monthly pe¬ 
riod. Many girls at this critical time of their 
young lives believe they have met with an acci¬ 
dent of some sort or other, which they cannot 
account for. Some even believe that they must 
have accidently cut or injured themselves in 
some mysterious manner, while others look for 
some diseased condition, directly or indirectly, 
connected with their sexual organs. They all 
proceed to curb the flow to the best of their 
limited knowledge, usually in as hurriedly and 
secretly a manner as possible, fearing their 
parents, elders, or associates may become aware 
of what they consider a mystifying fact. Their 
physical condition may be affected to a more or 
less extent, depending upon the temperament 
and emotional nature of the young woman. If 
they experience any of the symptoms which in¬ 
variably accompany their first monthly period, 
they usually hide the fact also, or misinterpret 
and misrepresent the cause. 

Why any young woman should be permitted 
to enter into this stage of her existence without 
being informed of the actual state of affairs by 
her mother, is more than the writer can under¬ 
stand. One would hardly think it credible that 
such conditions obtain even in some of our best 
regulated families. This state of affairs is un- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 43 


doubtedly carrying prudery and false modesty 
beyond the limits of reason. It is really dis¬ 
tressing to think that any enlightened, intelli¬ 
gent mother would allow her daughters to reach 
this stage of their lives without giving them the 
advice they so badly need on this vital subject. 
Ignorance, in any form, is to be condemned and 
none more so than in the sex relation. It cannot 
be impressed too firmly on the minds of all, that 
reliable information concerning the marriage 
relation is an absolute necessity. 

The following heartrending incident, which 
was brought to the writer’s attention some few 
years ago and which is only one of many some¬ 
what similar instances met with by the average 
physician in the different spheres of society, 
should be sufficient proof, in itself, of what is 
liable to happen to any young woman brought 
up from childhood to adolescence without the 
proper instruction necessary to her physical, 
moral and mental well-being, or, in other words, 
reaching maturity, lacking knowledge of the 
functions of her sex. 

The object of the writer in singling this case 
out for his readers’ benefit, is primarily due to 
the fact that he knew the young woman in ques¬ 
tion all of her life, being physician for the 
family at the time of her birth and for several 
years afterwards, including the time that the 
sad occurrence took place, which we are about 
to relate. 

Being the only child of one of our most sue- 


44 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


cessful business men, it might be said that her 
every whim was gratified. She had everything 
that riches could buy. Her parents, being 
plentifully supplied with this world’s goods, 
they could afford to bring her up in the lap of 
luxury. She was the recipient of every care and 
attention that wealth could bestow upon her. 
Her earlier education and training were re¬ 
ceived in one of the leading convents of the 
country. At the termination of her convent 
training her parents decided to accompany her 
to Europe to give her an opportunity of finish¬ 
ing her education abroad and mingling in the 
Old World society. A short time previous to 
her anticipated journey, she became slightly 
indisposed, as occurs to a good many young 
women at this period of their lives, having 
reached the threshold of womanhood. The 
writer was summoned, in his professional 
capacity, to treat her for her ailment, having, 
by this time, become both friend and confidante, 
as well as medical adviser to both the mother 
and daughter. Her condition warranted the 
mildest form of treatment to prepare her for the 
journey, having taken the trip a week from the 
time of my visit. She spent some two years 
abroad and returned in the full bloom of young 
womanhood, brimming over with vitality and 
everything that goes to make life an earthly 
paradise. Her physique was as well-nigh per¬ 
fect as it was possible for any young woman to 
possess, due, principally to the sound, healthy, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 45 


clean stock from which she sprung. Her moral 
and mental outlook compared very favorably 
with her physique. She was a perfect specimen 
of young womanhood; perfect in body, soul and 
mind. She was a splendid type of the stork 
trained girl, who was left to acquire what lim¬ 
ited knowledge she possessed of sex physiology 
and everything that pertains to sex relationship 
through haphazard means. 

She was now a very refined, accomplished 
young woman for her age and became very 
popular with society’s younger set. Due to an 
extended practice, which occupied the greater 
part of my time, I had not the opportunity of 
seeing her very often during the first few weeks 
following her return from abroad. One even¬ 
ing, rather late in the fall of the year, some few 
months following her arrival, I was called to 
the phone by Mrs. Z, who requested me to come 
at once to her home, as her daughter, X, was ill. 
I immediately responded to the call and after a 
preliminary conversation with the mother, who 
had not the least idea of her daughter’s ailment, 
I requested to be left alone with the latter. 
After a brief examination I discovered the 
source of all the trouble. I endeavored to get 
the young woman to admit the cause, but she 
steadfastly refused, until I acquainted her of 
her actual condition, whereupon she told me 
the whole story from beginning to end. 

One not so well acquainted with the family 
and the girl herself would doubt the credibility 


46 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of such a story. It is but another case in point 
of truth being stranger than fiction. She had 
become enamored with a certain young man 
some few years her senior, and in her innocence 
and the goodness of her young heart, yielded to 
his advances, thinking no harm could come from 
her indiscretion, as she was pleased to term her 
first false step, with the result that she became 
pregnant, which fact she desired to keep from 
her parents as long as she possibly could. The 
ignominy and disgrace which she felt her mis¬ 
take would bring upon her and her family had 
already influenced her young mind to such an 
extent that she premeditated suicide. In order 
to alleviate her mental anguish I endeavored to 
calm her fears and remonstrated to her the folly 
of her thoughts. I informed the mother of the 
real facts in the case, who immediately burst 
into tears, saying, “How can I inform her 
father.” Notwithstanding the fact that I had 
been physician, friend and confidante of the 
family for several years, I was only prevented 
by the arrival of Mr. Z on the scene from telling 
this woman that the blame for her daughter's 
mistake should be placed upon the girl’s mother 
for allowing her child to reach such an age in 
ignorance of the most fundamental elements of 
sex, or the physical laws governing the sex 
relation. 

The boy and girl is developed mentally and 
physically at our schools, his or her earlier train¬ 
ing being received, when the brain is most plas- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 47 


tic, at home. Who, therefore, are better fitted 
to educate their offspring, as the child de¬ 
velops, in matters pertaining to sex, than the 
parents? Is it not preferable to have your child 
receive information on the vital subject of sex 
from you, rather than obtain it from some illiter¬ 
ate school associate? It cannot be said to their 
credit that the majority of the parents permit 
their children to grow up untrained and in ig¬ 
norance of even the most elementary principles 
of Sex Hygiene, and on the very rare occasions 
when the sexual organs are referred to, it is in 
such a manner as to arouse the child’s suspicion, 
who, eventually, begins to look upon these 
organs as indecent. The morbid curiosity of the 
child being thus aroused, information is sought 
from other sources and is, invariably, obtained 
in such a coarse, low, vulgar way, from older 
children and depraved adults, as to completely 
shock the finer sensibilities, temporarily of 
course, sad to say, due to the fact that the in¬ 
sinuations and expressions, which, at first, 
shocked and caused a feeling of repugnance, 
were listened to and repeated later by the boy 
or girl themselves, as the case may be, without 
a qualm of conscience. 


48 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 



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LESSON IV 

VENEREAL DISEASE AND SEX 
IGNORANCE 

The jocular manner in which so many young 
men speak of venereal diseases, even among 
members of some of our best families, is really 
heartrending. It makes one shudder to think 
what may eventually become of the youth who 
makes a jest of what might be termed one of 
the most momentous and perplexing problems 
with which society has to contend with today. 
Many of those young men, in conversation with 
their youthful companions, boast of the fact 
that they have contracted venereal disease on 
several occasions. Some have been known to 
remark that they would much prefer certain 
forms of venereal disease to a bad cold, as they 
seem to think they can get rid of the former 
more easily than the cold. These conditions 
obtaining in our midst may be said to be simply 
and solely due to lack of knowledge on even the 
most fundamental elements of the sex relation. 
Would it not be considerably better, in fact a 
boon to those young men, to advise them of the 
evil of their ways? Were it not better for those 
young men, instead of being permitted to reach 
the age of maturity in such ignorance of the sex 
relation, to have been cautioned by their par¬ 
ents, or at the schools, against the evils at- 


50 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


tending cohabitation with loose, or lewd women, 
thereby preventing the possibilities of ruining 
themselves physically, mentally and morally, 
and blasting the lives of their families by trans¬ 
mitting the disease to their offspring and even 
their wives? 

A few of those young men may possibly have 
inherited a depraved sexual nature from some 
one or other of their ancestors, for it cannot be 
gainsaid that heredity is the foundation of 
character. The same law of heredity will not 
permit apricots to grow on orange trees, nor 
roses to bloom on sage brush, nor bananas from 
the pineapple shrub. We cannot escape our 
heredity; whether they be virtues or vices, they 
are our inheritage from our ancestors. A good 
many organic diseases are traceable to heredity, 
including tuberculosis in its various forms, em¬ 
bracing bone, lung and lymphatic glands; cer¬ 
tain forms of heart trouble; insanity, etc. 
Therefore it is only natural to expect that a 
depraved sexual nature can be inherited from 
past generations, which will assert itself on 
every possible occasion, unless curbed by the 
individual will-power. It has been proven con¬ 
clusively that, whether they be vices or virtues, 
they can be handed down to the third and 
fourth generation. 

If the average young man only knew the 
appalling results produced through contracting 
venereal diseases, the thoughts of associating 
with fast women, or prostitutes, would, to say 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 51 


the least, be repugnant to him. Venereal dis¬ 
eases, in themselves, especially in some forms, 
are of minor importance, compared with the 
serious results which appear years after their 
acquisition, when the individual has been lulled 
into a mistaken sense of security by long free¬ 
dom from manifestation of the disease and 
believes a cure has been effected. It is a very 
serious mistake to think that venereal disease 
may be gotten rid of very easily, by the use of 
quack medicines, or so-called quick cures, as 
advertised in the various magazines, etc., and 
obtained at the many drug stores throughout the 
country. Such remedies, often called “blood 
purifiers,” are a complete fake. There are 
other remedies, which apparently cure, but are 
really misleading, insofar as they just treat the 
complaint and not the cause and, in reality, 
leave the venereal patient in a worse condi¬ 
tion than before, due to the fact that he is lulled 
into the belief that a cure has been effected by 
the stoppage of all outward syptoms. The 
young man should understand that the germs 
of venereal disease lurk in the system years 
after the outward symptoms disappear and 
certain forms may be communicated by cohabi¬ 
tation, or occasionally by personal contact, such 
as a kiss. Articles moistened by his secretions, 
such as towels, drinking utensils, etc., have also 
a possible tendency to transmit the disease. 

It is extremely difficult to distinguish be- 
' tween the two principal forms of venereal dis- 


52 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


ease—chancroid, or soft chancre, and syphillis, 
or hard chancre. A reputable physician should 
therefore be immediately consulted and his ad¬ 
vice should be accepted and faithfully carried 
out. The young man should waste no time on 
so-called speedy cures, which are only meant 
to deceive, by removal of the outward symp¬ 
toms, which lead the patient to believe he is 
apparently cured and are only manufactured 
for financial gain. Insanity, apoplexy, general 
paralysis, or paresis, locomotor ataxia and heart 
disease are but a few of the many diseases which 
may be produced as the results of syphilis. 

Gonorrhoea is another loathsome disease of 
the sexual organs, which may be contracted 
through illicit cohabitation with lewd women, 
which every young man should guard against at 
all hazards. It should be remembered that all 
women who practice a life of prostitution con¬ 
tract venereal diseases some time or other. It 
has been proven that a good many prostitutes 
are diseased the greater part, if not all of the 
time. 

Although of more serious import than chan¬ 
croid or soft chancre, but considerably less 
drastic in its effects than syphilis, when taken 
in time and treated by a reputable physician, 
gonorrhoeal infection, if chronic, may result in 
dire consequences, including death. If death 
of the individual only was the result of becom¬ 
ing infected with the germs of gonorrhoea, 
society would be far better off, than under 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 53 


existing conditions, where many pure, innocent 
wives and children have been ruined for life 
through the husband transmitting this disease 
to his spouse. 

Although some physicians claim that gonor¬ 
rhoea, if treated properly in its very early stages, 
is one of the most amenable diseases of all to 
treatment, it is nevertheless an authenticated 
fact that many cases of gonorrhoea, which have 
seemingly been successfully treated, have been 
known to tecur in later life. 

There are many cases of young men who 
contracted gonorrhoea and effected a cure, 
only to have the germs reappear later in life 
with the result that they transmitted the disease 
to their wives and children. Many babies are 
born into the world who are destined to never 
see the light of day through gonorrhoea infec¬ 
tion, contracted by the mother of the offspring 
from just such a father who believed he had 
effected a cure in his earlier life. Many wives 
have been compelled to undergo major opera¬ 
tions as the result of contracting gonorrhoea 
from their husbands. Many good, pure, inno¬ 
cent women have been unsexed as the result of 
a surgical operation, taken in many instances 
to save their lives, where gonorrhoeal infection 
caused abscesses among one or other of their 
ovaries. There are even cases in point where 
both ovaries and fallopian tubes were in such 
diseased condition as the result of gonorrhoeal 
infection transmitted by the husband to the wife 


54 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


as to necessitate removal of both those organs 
by the surgeon’s knife in order to save the life 
of the individual. 

How many men and women of today, not to 
speak of past generations, are either physical 
or mental wrecks, or both, as the result of ve¬ 
nereal diseases, due to sex ignorance, either on 
the part of themselves, or their ancestors? Our 
insane asylums and sanitariums tell a tale which 
cannot be looked over. Statistics conclusively 
prove that insanity is increasing at an alarming 
rate—in fact to such an extent that the ques¬ 
tion of segregation and classification of those 
unfortunately so afflicted has become of para¬ 
mount importance. The adult man or woman, 
who, through heredity or otherwise, becomes 
incapacitated mentally and consequently a bur¬ 
den on society, deserves every .sympathy and 
consideration. The numerous institutions scat¬ 
tered all over the American continent and Eu¬ 
rope, filled in many instances to overflowing, 
are tangible proof of the ravages this terrible 
disease is making on civilization. When we also 
take into consideration the number of feeble¬ 
minded children who are brought into the world 
annually, it becomes apparent that one of the 
most vital problems of the present age is how 
best to cope with this ever increasing burden on 
society. Contemplation of the fact that the 
State surrounding our greatest metropolis, with 
a total population in her sixty-two counties oi 
little over nine and one-half million, has a total 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 55 


of approximately sixty thousand insane, is, in 
itself, convincing proof of the extent and seri¬ 
ousness of this terrible malady, which exempts 
neither race, class nor creed. 

Under the present living and working condi¬ 
tions, medical skill and science seem to avail 
but little in combating this dreadful scourge, 
which, unfortunately, according to leading 
scientists, is handed down from past generations 
in a large majority of cases. How many, in those 
institutions, have contracted the dreadful dis¬ 
ease of paresis, which is brought on, either 
directly or indirectly, as the result of one of the 
most loathsome diseases of the sexual organs, 
syphilis, and in nearly every instance due to sex 
ignorance on the part of the unfortunate man 
or woman who contracts this terrible malady? 

Sentiment prevents the outside world from 
learning the vast number of paretic men and 
women—human derelicts, committed and incar¬ 
cerated annually. This most dreadful of all 
diseases — commonly called “softening-of-the- 
brain”—would, in all probability, not be so 
prevalent today, were more enlightenment 
thrown upon the subject and Sex-Anatomy in¬ 
cluded in the curriculum of our schools. Sex 
instruction should be considered of vital im¬ 
portance in the training of every young man 
and young woman. The use and abuse of the 
sexual organs should be made the subject of a 
special study and thoroughly discussed in a 
sane, sensible, practical manner. The young 


56 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


man should be given to understand that there 
are many pitfalls and that venereal diseases, once 
contracted, have a deteriorating effect, to say 
the least, on his mental, moral and physical 
well-being. 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 57 


LESSON V 

MASTURBATION OR ONANISM 

Masturbation, or Onanism (incomplete sexual 
congress) might well be said to have been 
ushered into the world at the time of civiliza¬ 
tion. In uncivilized lands this vice is practically 
unknown. There are no laws, social or other¬ 
wise, among uncivilized races, which prevent 
them from appeasing their normal sexual appe¬ 
tite. There are no moral obligations existing in 
savage countries which compel them to refrain 
from full and complete gratification of their 
passions, according to the dictates of their 
animal nature. It is therefore not necessary 
for them to apply artificial methods, such as 
masturbation, or onanism, in order to secure an 
outlet for their passions. Masturbation among 
the savage races is therefore practically as rare 
an occurrence as it is among any of the lower 
animals. Masturbation, in civilized society, 
might be said to owe its origin to the fear of 
impregnation attached to normal sexual inter¬ 
course. The habit is usually cultivated when 
very young, invariably around the age of seven 
to ten, but rarely indulged in after reaching the 
age of fifteen to seventeen, when, if not discon¬ 
tinued permanently, is curbed considerably. 
The average healthy youth, addicted to this 
vice, on reaching aforementioned age, discovers 


58 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


that this habit, if not stopped in time, will have 
a prejudicial effect on his whole system. At 
this age he is developing into young manhood. 
He begins to see the possibilities of his future 
life. He mixes to a more or less extent with 
older companions. He either joins in or listens 
to the conversation going on around him. Per¬ 
chance in conversation with his friends and 
companions, sex matters are made mention of, 
or perhaps some indirect insinuation, or careless 
remark is made, which awakens him to the fact 
that things are not really what they should be. 
He may possibly read some sex literature. It 
matters not from what source he may receive 
his limited information, he is awakened to the 
fact that his habits are not exactly above re¬ 
proach. He is interested and delves deeper into 
the subject. He invariably seeks information 
from more learned authorities, whether from a 
physician or books by reliable authors, with the 
result that he invariably refrains from the 
practice. 

There have been numerous instances brought 
to the writer’s attention w r here onanism has 
been practiced at as early an age as five and 
six, due primarily to the carelessness of parents 
in permitting the child to be handled in its 
tenderest years by some careless, indifferent 
nurse with a possible perverted sexual instinct, 
who, in many cases, in order to allay the child’s 
cries, cause sensation of the genitals by titilla- 
tion, which invariably has the desired result, as 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 59 


the sensation produced has a tendency to quiet 
the child, but at what a cost to the victim. In 
many instances these children have been ruined 
for life as a result of becoming addicted to the 
habit to such an extent as to weaken the will¬ 
power and wreck the nervous system. These 
are usually the children who practice the habit 
at an extremely early age. The larger majority 
of children, who have passed this tender age 
without cultivating the habit only to fall a 
victim to this vice, two, three, or four years 
later, as the case may be, may be said to owe 
their ill-fortune to, or acquired the habit from, 
older associates, or more precocious, vicious 
playmates. 

There are various, devious means by which 
incomplete sexual congress may be consum¬ 
mated, with causation of orgasm. The writer 
has in mind several patients, who applied to 
him for treatment. One of those was a young 
man, whose case warranted very close scrutiny 
and the most careful treatment to successfully 
aid him in conquering this evil habit. He ad¬ 
mitted exciting his genitals by hand on every 
possible occasion, but cultivated the habit from 
climbing trees and hanging from a protruding 
branch a sufficient length of time to produce a 
complete orgasm. Another instance which 
might be recorded here for the benefit of the 
reader is that of a young woman, who became 
a confirmed masturbator, but was eventually 
completely cured of the habit, not however 


60 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


until she had developed symptoms peculiar to 
a certain class of women, a disease known as 
nymphomania—insane sexual desire in a female. 
This young woman admitted that she was 
taught by an older schoolmate how to mastur¬ 
bate by hand and by the aid of artificial instru¬ 
ments. Her genital organs became so sensitive 
to the act in the earlier stages that many forms 
of slight exertion, such as straddling chairs, 
narrow lounges, horseback riding, with just 
sufficient exertion to arouse her passion caused 
all of the sensations attendant on masturbation. 
When accused of being a nymphomaniac, this 
young woman readily admitted the fact. Still 
another case might be cited of a young woman 
who cultivated the habit of masturbation 
through sliding down the banister of a stairway. 
From this beginning she was prompted to adopt 
newer and more convenient methods and 
eventually developed the habit to such an extent 
and practiced it for so many years that she 
began to show symptoms of hypochondriasis. 
Otherwise she seemed to enjoy fairly good 
health. She complained of being despondent 
and gloomy and greatly feared she was develop¬ 
ing tuberculosis. On one of her frequent trips 
to my office I took a note of her history. I 
warned her to give the whole facts of her case, 
if she desired permanent recovery. It was only 
after great persuasion that she admitted being 
a masturbator. I thereupon informed her that 
her fears were imaginary and were caused by 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 61 


the secret sin she had indulged in for so many 
years. 

Many young men have been known to learn 
the art of manipulating their genitals through 
ill-advised exercises on cross bars, rings and 
other somewhat similar forms of athletics, 
where the weight of the body is held up by the 
hand. Outdoor exercise cannot be too highly 
commended for all boys and girls, especially 
after reaching the age of puberty. The boy or 
girl under seventeen would however be far 
better advised to refrain from those exercises 
which have a tendency to excite the genital 
organs. Especially is outdoor exercise helpful 
to those young men and young women, who are 
compelled to lead an indoor life, or follow some 
sedentary occupation. The latter have a ten¬ 
dency to foster thoughts, directly and indirectly, 
on the genital organs, which cannot but have a 
prejudicial effect, to say the least, on the minds 
of many otherwise healthy young men and 
young women. 

Notwithstanding the fact that onanism has a 
much less deleterious effect on young women 
than young men, this vice is considerably less 
prevalent among the former than the latter. 
Contrary to the opinions of the uneducated, 
masturbation does not impair the general health 
to such an appreciable extent as to be outwardly 
noticeable, any more than illicit sexual inter¬ 
course, or overindulgence in the sex relation 
between man and wife, if curbed in time and 


62 


STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


permanently stopped before the individual's 
teens are passed. Though being admittedly in¬ 
jurious to both sexes to a more or less extent, 
there are rarely any external signs by which one 
can justifiably point to this or that individual 
as a masturbator any more than they could to a 
married man, who freely indulges in sexual 
intercourse. Individuals of either sex, on reach¬ 
ing the age of seventeen or thereabouts, on 
finding themselves victims to this degrading 
vice, invariably cease to indulge further in the 
habit, with the result that they build themselves 
up in bodily strength and vigor. If, in the rare 
exceptions where this reformation does not take 
place, due to the complete mastery this vice has 
over their will-power and this act of self¬ 
pollution is still freely indulged in, unmistaken 
signs begin to manifest themselves sooner or 
later. These exceptions are how r ever very rare 
and occur in practically every instance only 
where the individual is possessed of a depraved 
nature and low mentality. In cases of this kind, 
many of the nobler and finer instincts of man¬ 
kind have been completely destroyed. It is at 
this stage that the victims develop character¬ 
istics peculiar to their type. The features take 
on a sallow, pale, anaemic hue. The face be¬ 
comes practically void of expression. Dark cir¬ 
cles surround the eyes, which are sunken and 
glassy. Shyness in company is characteristic of 
the individual at this stage. The eyes, sadly lack¬ 
ing the lustre of health, rarely meet those of 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 63 


others, whether companions or strangers. Cow¬ 
ardliness, untrustworthiness, dullness and stu¬ 
pidness predominate more or less. Slovenliness 
in habits, slouching gait and general lack of in¬ 
terest in the performance of their regular round 
of duties are very perceptible. The victim is 
spiritless and inanimate and seemingly destitute 
of life. The power of concentration is lessened 
considerably. The memory is deficient. Absent- 
mindedness and incapability of properly per¬ 
forming the duties of the day, especially where 
mental effort is required are plainly evident. 
The victim gradually becomes lower and lower 
in the human scale, eventually resembling a 
mere animal in desires and actions. By this time, 
certain forms of disease, if not already con¬ 
tracted, are liable to develop at any time, either 
of mind, or body, or both. 

Some scientists claim that the disease of epi¬ 
lepsy may be directly caused by onanism and 
that some of the worst cases of dementia in our 
insane asylums are directly traceable to mas¬ 
turbation and excessive sexual intercourse. 

A case of a young woman, who developed 
epilepsy, was brought to the writer’s attention 
some few years ago. This young woman, at the 
age of seventeen, decided on studying for a pro¬ 
fession and to this end entered into a contract 
with her brother, some few years her senior, to 
help her attain the object of her desires. The 
brother, who held a rather lucrative position for 
his age, readily agreed to pay all of the expenses 


64 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of her education with the understanding that 
she was to reciprocate in kind when the oppor¬ 
tunity availed itself. She studied diligently for 
a period of approximately three years, when she 
decided, having passed an examination to that 
end and acquired the necessary qualifications, 
to become a school teacher. During the few 
months which intervened between her final ex¬ 
amination and her appointment to a school in a 
rural community she developed slight fits of 
despondency, from which she apparently gradu¬ 
ally recovered. These despondent spells com¬ 
prised the only form of physical, or mental 
trouble this young woman had suffered from 
during her young life. Those spells were of 
such a nature that no special significance could 
have been attached to them. In due time she 
received her appointment. On returning to her 
home at the end of the school term she was the 
recipient of a great deal of attention from her 
friends, who gave a somewhat elaborate enter¬ 
tainment in honor of her return. In the midst of 
the festivities it was noticed that her face took 
on a deathly pallor, which was immediately 
followed by her toppling ov*r unconscious from 
a sitting posture to the floor. The convulsive 
movements of the features, torso and limbs, 
with a frothy substance oozing from the mouth, 
resembled all the symptoms of an epileptic con¬ 
vulsion. The family physician being away, I 
was called upon and administered temporary 
relief. Although the symptoms pointed strongly 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 65 


to epilepsy I was slow in diagnosing the case. 

Some two months afterwards I was called to 
the office of Dr. X, the family physician, in con¬ 
sultation. It appears the young woman had sev¬ 
eral convulsions during the intervening period, 
which alarmed her family considerably. All of 
the symptoms proved conclusively that she had 
developed epilepsy. Her family history was 
taken and proved to be comparatively free from 
diseased conditions on both sides, as far back as 
could be traced. Dr. X decided on having the 
young woman call at his office for a thorough 
examination and found her perfect in mind and 
body. He thereupon quizzed her concerning 
her habits. It was with reluctance that she ad¬ 
mitted certain facts and then only on being ad¬ 
vised by her physician, who knew her from 
childhood, that a cure could not be effected 
unless she answered his queries satisfactorily, 
whereupon she explained her case in detail, in 
strictest confidence. Her history, as she told it, 
was that of a confirmed masturbator. She stated 
that she was taught the habit of masturbation 
at the age of seven and indulged in it almost 
daily since. The habit had become so strong 
with her that even in her weakened condition 
immediately following an epileptic spasm she 
would attempt an orgasm. 

This young woman was shown the evil of her 
habits, which she already knew something of 
and warned to immediately refrain from further 
indulgence in this vice. An earnest attempt on 


66 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


her part was successful in relieving her condi¬ 
tion to a considerable extent. Lustful dreams, 
which produced an orgasm however occurred 
practically every night for an indefinite period. 
In fact during the four years she suffered from 
epileptic convulsions lascivious dreams accom¬ 
panied by an orgasm, disturbed her nightly 
slumbers. 

“The sins of the father shall be visited on the 
children, even unto the third and fourth genera¬ 
tion.” If there is one case where this proverb 
is more applicable than another, it is in the case 
of masturbators. The sin lives after them to 
leave its mark upon their progeny and their 
progeny, who are robbed of their birthright by 
being born into the world with impaired vitality 
and in such weakened physical condition as to 
be incapable of resisting the many ills that chil¬ 
dren are heir to. Many of those children suc¬ 
cumb to disease, which the average healthy 
child combats easily. Many are born to die 
before they reach the age of puberty, while 
those who live are physical weaklings as the 
result of this secret sin of their parents. Tuber¬ 
culosis of the lungs has been traced, in many 
instances, to masturbation on the part of the 
parent. The writer has not gone into detail on 
the numerous diseases which follow in the wake 
of masturbation, as to do so would in itself 
necessitate publication of a new volume on the 
subject. He however fondly hopes that enough 
has already been said in the foregoing pages 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 67 


under this heading to act as a warning to his 
readers of the evils attendant on this vice. He 
also trusts that the knowledge imparted herein 
will prove a boon to young men and young 
women, who, through no fault of their own, are 
addicted to the habit of masturbation and help 
strengthen them to combat this evil, which if 
not curbed in time, will most assuredly wreck 
their future lives and those of their nearest and 
dearest. 


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68 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Plate IV 

Blood vesseIs of the body.Whife 
vessels representing the arteriesand 
black representing the veins 

Externa 



Ex ter no I 

5aphenous 

vein 


Anterior tibia I 
Posterior tibia 
















AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 69 


LESSON VI 

THE SOCIAL EVIL 

Harlotry or prostitution, as it is more com¬ 
monly known, comprises our existing so-called 
“Social Evil.” The origin of prostitution can be 
traced back to very early days. The word, 
prostitution is very much abused and is applied 
many times very much out of place. Prostitu¬ 
tion in the real sense of the word, or as we 
understand it, is not necessarily applicable to 
all women who make the mistake of loving un¬ 
wisely but too well. A prostitute, if we are to 
go by Webster, is a female given to indiscrim¬ 
inate lewdness, a base hireling, or in other 
words, a woman who offers herself publicly for 
lewd purposes for hire—a strumpet. Illicit 
sexual intercourse with one or more men does 
not in itself constitute prostitution, in the full¬ 
est sense of this much abused term. We wish it 
therefore to be distinctly understood that wher¬ 
ever prostitution is referred to under this head¬ 
ing, it refers to women who patronize men for 
illicit sexual relations for the purposes of ob¬ 
taining money, whereby they make their liveli¬ 
hood. Prostitution was known and practiced 
long before the fall of the Grecian and Roman 
empires. Its members are comprised of women 
from all spheres of life, but particularly from 
among the illiterate classes of society, not only 



70 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


in the cities and towns, but the rural districts. 

It might well be asked, what is the chief 
cause underlying prostitution? and what is the 
best remedy for this accursed evil? This is one 
of the questions which is troubling the minds of 
some of our greatest moralists, philanthropists, 
etc. It is a question which so far has defied 
some of the most determined efforts put forth 
in any cause for solution. 

Poverty among the poorer classes with its 
accompanying allies, undoubtedly have a deal 
to do with filling our large cities and towns 
with those unfortunate specimens of the human 
race. Love of adventure contributes in some 
degree. Love of finery helps to a more or less 
extent. Degeneracy and mental incompetency, 
with its accompanying traits, indolence and 
aggravated ideals of city life, help consider¬ 
ably to enlarge the number. Passion, lack of 
will-power, etc. help to swell the ranks. The 
chief contributing cause underlying prostitution, 
however, has been proven beyond all question 
of a doubt, to be due to the fact that many inno¬ 
cent young women were seduced to their ulti¬ 
mate complete ruin through being kept in such 
complete ignorance of even the most funda¬ 
mental elements of sex physiology, that the full 
meaning of their indiscretion or first false step 
never, even for one second, dawned upon them, 
until it was too late to remedy their mistake or 
make amends. 

Ignorance of sex matters predominate to a 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 71 


greater extent among many young women of 
the present day than the average reader is 
possibly aware of. When you take into con¬ 
sideration the fact that many of those young 
women would, in all probability, have led vir¬ 
tuous lives, were they better advised before they 
made the false step, do you not think it is high 
time that the false modesty, hypocrisy and 
prudery which permit such a condition to ob¬ 
tain, be dispensed with? We will leave this 
question to be threshed out by the reader. Some 
scientists lay claim to the statement that pros¬ 
titutes are primarily composed of both moral 
and mental defectives, while others go so far as 
to state that all women who lead a life of har¬ 
lotry, are imperfect in body, mind and soul. 

One point in connection with prostitution, 
which should be dwelt upon seriously, is that, 
were the conditions of life reversed and women 
to seek men for illicit sexual intercourse, there 
would be no such accursed evil as prostitution 
in our midst. This, in itself, goes to prove that 
man is wholly the contributing cause or factor 
and, in reality, the source from which “The 
Social Evil” originated, or sprung. History 
proves this to be so and that the man is re¬ 
sponsible for the woman’s downfall. Existing 
conditions of society only help to strengthen 
this proof. 

Masturbation and Unbridled Sex Relation* 

The average intelligent adult is fully aware of 


72 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


the physical, mental and moral effects of mas¬ 
turbation on the human system. Although the 
mental effect is not so bad as some theorists 
would have us believe, it nevertheless has a 
deteriorating effect, which is only natural to 
expect when one takes into account the motive 
underlying the act. The average intelligent 
adult, as already mentioned, being aware of the 
dangers incident to masturbation, refrains from 
exercising his passion in this direction. Were 
this identical individual accused of being a mas¬ 
turbator, he would resent such an accusation, 
probably with all the strength within him and 
rightly so under normal conditions. 

Let us go into this subject deeper and take, 
for instance, the habitue of what are commonly 
known as “Red Light Districts,” or a man who 
makes a regular habit of visiting houses of ill- 
fame, or prostitution, in order to satisfy his 
sexual craving. Contrast this man with the mas¬ 
turbator. The former cohabits with women, in 
all probability, far below him, mentally and 
morally. Ask yourself the question, Can the 
result of such cohabitation have a beneficial 
effect upon this man’s mentality, not to speak 
of his moral outlook? We say NO. It cannot 
but have a pernicious, destructive and degrad¬ 
ing effect and compares very favorably with 
that of the masturbator, notwithstanding the 
fact that he had regular sexual intercourse as 
he would have had with his wife, were he mar¬ 
ried. We will leave all danger of the possibility 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 73 


of contracting venereal disease from the women 
with whom this man cohabits out of the ques¬ 
tion, which is a feature which should be upper¬ 
most in the mind of every young man anticipat¬ 
ing a visit to a brothel or home for prostitutes, 
or streetwalkers. If he is a man of a depraved 
nature, low mentality, or brutish inclination, 
the mental effect will not be great. He does 
not necessarily have to be a man of culture or 
refinement, but the more cultured and refined 
the nature the greater will be the mental de¬ 
terioration. His real sexual appetite is not 
appeased any more than is the sexual desires 
of the masturbator. The mating instinct is ab¬ 
sent. There is no affection on his part for the 
women he cohabits with. He receives no return 
or response, sexually so to speak, from the pros¬ 
titute. She is a victim of circumstances, who is 
in the business for hire alone. She allows her¬ 
self passively to cohabit with the man. The 
total result is that, as with the masturbator, he 
invariably is more disgusted at the termination 
of his act than previous to letting his passion 
run away with his good sense. Practically the 
same mental effect takes place as if he com¬ 
mitted masturbation. Continuation of these 
conditions by frequent visits to the parlor 
houses, dives or brothels, as the case may be, 
causes his degradation and the deterioration of 
his mental powers more and more, so much so 
as to eventually cause him to become more and 
more perverted in his ideas of sex and ulti- 


74 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


mately to cultivate abnormal sexual desires, 
which predominate in all houses of ill-fame. 
His mental condition by this time has become 
lowered to such a degree, his physique impaired, 
his will-power weakened and his moral aspect 
of life such that he sinks lower and lower into 
the dregs until he is eventually in the same boat 
as the women with whom he cohabited, the 
prostitute. 

Now let us take the case of the young woman 
who starts on a life of dissipation and de¬ 
bauchery. 

Woman’s Despair, Error and Debt. Due to 

lack of proper knowledge of the sex functions, 
in many instances, or to please their lovers, or 
for various other reasons, many young women, 
before they know or think what the results of 
their error may be, permit undue liberties to be 
taken with them, occasionally. This is very, 
very wrong, no matter from what angle you may 
look at it. The world is teeming today with 
women who took this false step in their earlier 
life. The parlor houses and dives of our large 
cities may be said to be crowded with such 
women, many of whom looked upon their earlier 
indiscretion as a lover’s mistake or girlish prank. 
It is the old, old story—true one, but sad. Er¬ 
ror and debt. The former was committed, pos¬ 
sibly, in a moment of forgetfulness, to be fol- 
lowered, sooner or later, by its companion in 
misfortune, the latter. Countless numbers of 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 75 


those young women drifted to our large cities to 
be swallowed up in a life of dissipation and de¬ 
bauchery, ending, eventually, in premature 
death, invariably the result of some loathsome 
disease, “unwept, unhonored and unsung.” 

The writer’s harassing experiences and his 
helpmate’s, as subsidiaries in attempted uplifts, 
with women of this class, not to mention the con¬ 
fidences which he has been favored with by his 
contemporaries in the medical profession, have 
been such that any decent man or woman would ^ 
shudder or recoil in horror at their narration. 
Even if space permitted, we would not, if we 
could, narrate them here. Enough to say that 
death was a welcome relief from their untold 
misery in many instances. 

The vast number of young women who use 
their bodies for indiscriminate intercourse with 
the opposite sex or to lead the life of a strumpet, 
to die prematurely in utter desolation and de¬ 
spair, would hardly seem credible to the aver¬ 
age reader. The greater majority of those 
young women were, formerly, good-meaning, 
innocent young girls, who were tempted to lead 
this life by the committal of some girlish indis¬ 
cretion, which resulted in their downfall and 
consequent ignominy. 

Due to the conditions which dominate present 
day society, the young woman, no matter what 
other excellent qualities she may possess, who 
makes a fatal mistake of this kind, is looked 
upon as a social outcast and treated accordingly. 


76 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


She is made to appear as a harlot, who deserves 
no sympathy or consideration and is ostracized 
as such. Is it any wonder, under those existing 
circumstances, that the unfortunate young 
woman seeks the bright lights of our large cities, 
to get away from such surroundings? She leaves 
for the city, with the best of intentions, to start 
life over anew. However, she finds city life not 
as rosy a path as she pictured. She may obtain 
suitable employment and she may not, more 
often the latter is the case. The temptations to 
make one more little mistake are many and 
varied. She may resist the temptations and she 
may not. If her will-power is sufficiently strong 
she may succeed. But how many do succeed in 
cases of this kind? Few indeed, dear reader. 
The underworld of our large cities prove this to 
be so. The few who do succeed in living a good, 
clean, straight life are worthy of praiseworthy 
consideration. Circumstances are against their 
less fortunate sisters. The tempter is always 
close at hand. He knows where wine and music 
are to be had. Her whole soul craves for com¬ 
pany. She is lonely and sick at heart. Her idle 
hours are probably spent in some garret room. 
Her prospects of enjoying any of the luxuries 
she sees lavished on other women, are very, very 
remote. She is, in all probability, without the 

full necessaries of life, and the world_her 

world—looks very dark and dreary. The mo¬ 
notony of her existence is killing. She is eating 
her young heart out with loneliness. The soli- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 77 


tude of her surroundings becomes unbearable. 
The tempter comes along and whispers words of 
encouragement; attempts to demonstrate to the 
poor, misguided soul, as he prefers to call her, 
the folly of her strenuous efforts to live a good, 
clean life; flatters and cajoles her; appeals to 
her woman’s love of finery and the good things 
of life; fondles and caresses her. “Those who 
live in glass houses should never throw stones.” 
This poor young woman was more sinned 
against than she herself had sinned. She was 
more to be pitied than censured. Her downfall 
may be, justifiably, laid at the portals of society. 
The writer believes, when the day of judgment 
comes, that the sins of this poor misguided soul 
will be forgiven far more readily than those of a 
great many of our seemingly respectable mem¬ 
bers of society, whose cloak of respectability is 
as hypocritical as their lives. 

It is to be admitted, and every experienced 
medical practitioner is aware of the fact, that 
all young women who take the first misstep are 
not included among the aforementioned. NO. 
We wish to lay emphasis on this statement. The 
mills of God grind slowly, but surely. Those 
women who lost their virginity and, for some 
reason or other, were not attracted to the cities, 
to lead an immoral life in the dives, or parlor 
houses, or as streetwalkers, were, if their sen¬ 
tence was not so severe, made to pay the penalty 
in various other ways, for their indiscretion, de¬ 
pending on the inherent characteristics of the 


78 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


individual and their physical, mental and moral 
strength. 

How many women are there today, who, due 
to aforementioned reasons, are denied the pleas¬ 
ures and happiness of childbirth? How many 
women of today live a life of untold hardship as 
the results of their early impiety? The world 
at large will never know. It is left to the few to 
acquire this knowledge. The conscience stricken, 
heartsick women in this world, who despair of 
ever reaching healthy womanhood, comprise a 
goodly number of those who have sinned and 
are repenting. Many of the aforementioned 
are married and, to all outward appearances, 
living happy, contented lives, but lift the veil 
and you will find a skeleton in the closet, which 
accompanies them to their graves. “The wages 
of sin are death.” Young woman beware. Medi¬ 
tate deeply before you commit yourself to the 
slightest form of immorality, even, if at the 
time, it is pictured to you as a girlish prank. 
Profligacy is closely allied to such so-called girl¬ 
ish pranks. A good, clean mind and healthy 
body are two of the greatest assets any young 
woman can possess and the richest gifts she can 
bestow upon mankind. The attainment of those 
invaluable possessions should therefore be the 
height of every woman’s ambition and to this 
end she should strive under all circumstances. 


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LESSON VII 

IMMORALITY IN MARRIAGE 

Sensuality or lustfulness, in any form, is a 
disease which should be guarded against at all 
hazards. Sensualism is not confined to men 
alone. Although the deadly sin of lust is com¬ 
mitted far less frequently by women than men, 
it is, nevertheless, an authenticated fact that 
there are many women who posses such a pas¬ 
sionate, lustful nature, due, admittedly, in a 
good many instances to disease, inherited or 
otherwise, that it is a practical impossibility for 
the average man to fully appease their sensual 
appetite, without becoming either physically or 
mentally incapacitated, or both. The continual 
craving for sexual excitement and sexual inter¬ 
course, with this class of woman, is such as to 
completely warp the mind and dull the senses 
of herself and mate, particularly the husband of 
such a woman, if not held in check. Luckily 
however women on the whole are not char¬ 
acterized or stigmatized, if one may be per¬ 
mitted to use the word, with abnormal passions 
to such an extent as man. 

The male sex of all species is possessed of 
more physical strength than the female, whether 
it be that strength which comes from muscular 
development or that which is the essence of 
vitality, or a combination of both. It has been 


80 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Plate V 


Sh owing Central Peripheral and 
Sympathetic Nervous Systems 


Bronchia 
plexus 

Sympathetic 
Ganglia 


erebral 
Hemispheres 

erebdtum 



pina 
Nerves 


Sciahic 

Nerve 







AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 81 


proven conclusively that man’s brain power is 
stronger than woman’s. Such being the case, 
that where physical and mental strength is more 
pronounced in the male than the female, is it 
not only natural to expect that the average man 
will be possessed of greater vital sex force than 
the woman? This is obvious. Therefore where 
a woman with a normal healthy structure or 
organization is mated to a man possessed of ex¬ 
cessive vital force, something is eventually 
bound to happen, whereby the marriage rela¬ 
tion, instead of being one of bliss and happi¬ 
ness, invariably ends in disaster, due principally 
to the fact that the woman is incapable of prop¬ 
erly exercising what her mate is pleased to term 
or consider his marital rights. Notwithstanding 
that the wife of such a man would be well within 
her rights to resent such undue and unwelcome 
sexual relations, she, probably due to ignorance 
of the laws of nature, permits, if passively, never 
affectionately, such promiscuous sexual inter¬ 
course to continue indefinitely, until she either 
becomes a nervous wreck or constitutionally 
broken in health. It were far better that such a 
man or woman, as the case warranted, had 
chosen a more equitable partner, thereby al¬ 
leviating the possibilities of an abnormal desire 
on either side. 

The contrast between prostitution, in one 
sense, in and out of wedlock, is conspicuous by 
its absence, where untoward, or what might be 


82 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


called unlawful sexual liberties are taken by 
either one or other of the wedded pair. 

The erroneous idea formed by a good many 
married men and acquiesced in by the wife, due 
to ignorance, that they can throw all scruples to 
the wind in the marriage relation and that the 
marriage tie grants them full permission, or, in 
other words, legalizes unbridled sexual inter¬ 
course, is altogether wrong. Natures' laws have 
got to be obeyed or there will be a day of reckon¬ 
ing. Overindulgence or promiscuous amatory 
relation is a sin against nature, causing physical, 
mental and moral disaster and will, sooner, or 
later, reap its just retribution, in disease, sick¬ 
ness or death. As already mentioned, it is in 
very rare cases where the woman has been the 
contributing cause of abnormal sexual desires 
and in the greater majority of instances, if left 
to the woman's choice, too frequent sexual in¬ 
tercourse would be an unknown quantity. 

Frequency of the Sex Relation. Notwith¬ 
standing the fact that a great deal of rot and 
nonsense has been written from time to time on 
the frequency which sexual relation must and 
must not be indulged in, it is a well known fact 
that moderation cannot be too highly recom¬ 
mended. No rule or law, however, can be laid 
down as a guidance. As already made mention 
of in previous pages, we are not all constituted 
alike and what may be advisable for one, would 
be inadvisable for another. Age cuts an im- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 83 


portant figure in the sexual relation. Vital 
force plays a leading part. Some men have been 
known to cohabit with their wives from once to 
twice daily for years without any apparent seri- 
out effect. While in the case of others, much 
less frequency has wrought havoc. Daily sex¬ 
ual intercourse can only be indulged in without 
injury where the individual is possessed of ex¬ 
traordinary vitality. Even under the most favor¬ 
able circumstances, physical and otherwise, it 
were far better for the individual if sexual re¬ 
lation between husband and wife were restricted 
to three or possibly four times weekly, exclud¬ 
ing, of course, the menstrual period. There are 
undoubtedly many, otherwise robust, healthy 
men, to whom such frequent relation would be 
injurious, mentally and physically, depending 
upon the physical, mental and moral character¬ 
istics of the individual. 

Occupation has a deal to do with the fre¬ 
quency with which the husband should cohabit 
with his wife. Let us take, for instance, two 
normal individuals of the male sex, who are 
alike in physique and both equally healthy in 
mind and body. One of these men earns his 
livelihood by hard, muscular labor, where the 
maximum amount of energy is expended daily. 
The other may follow, not necessarily a seden¬ 
tary occupation, but one where the expenditure 
of energy is at a minimum, with just sufficient 
exercise of mind and body to keep him in good 
health. The latter could indulge in the sexual 


84 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


relation with far more frequency than his con¬ 
temporary. What might be said to be highly 
injurious to the former, might be said to have 
no material effect whatsoever in the case of the 
latter. For verification of this fact, the reader 
has only to refer to nature. The average man 
in normal health, who believes in moderation 
and is willing to forego sexual pleasures for 
permanent physical betterment, would be well 
advised to indulge in sexual intercourse not 
oftener than twice or, at the utmost, thrice 
weekly, or better still, we will say, six to eight 
times during the calendar month, excluding the 
“Monthly Period.” 

During a rather lengthened conversation the 
writer had with one of the most learned mem¬ 
bers of the medical profession of his time, some 
few years ago, the questions of sex relations was 
brought up. This man, who was possessed of 
exceptional intellectuality, made a special study 
of this subject in his younger years, which he 
improved upon during his years of a very ex¬ 
tended practice. He was one of the few ex¬ 
ceptions who practised what they preached. 
His personal experience along this line, given 
to the writer not many years previous to his 
death, which occurred at a very ripe old age, 
was to the effect that, notwithstanding his very 
successful practice, he would have been far 
more successful from a financial viewpoint, did 
he permit sentiment to play a part in his calling. 
In other words, if, in his dealings with many of 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 85 


his patients, had he refrained from giving ad¬ 
vice tending to eliminate the evil of too frequent 
sexual intercourse, or overindulgence in the sex 
relation, thereby starting at the root of the evil 
by treating the cause as was his wont and not, 
in order to gratify the whims of his patients, 
the complaint, he would have been far more 
popular in his professional capacity. 

This, in itself, goes to show the difficulties to 
be met with in treating on this subject at length 
and, at the same time, prove the efficacy of 
moderation, due to the vast amount of prejudice 
to be met with in all walks of life. Some con¬ 
sider that nature asserts itself at all such times 
and the individual should be guided accordingly. 
This is not a truthful statement; neither is it a 
falsehood. It is what we might term, half the 
truth and therefore difficult to disprove. The 
writer however wishes to take issue with this 
statement and could cite innumerable instances 
to prove the fallacy of this assertion in the real, 
true sense. Incorrect impressions formed by the 
mind have a great deal to do with promiscuous 
sexual indulgence. Adapting oneself to un¬ 
natural conditions breeds a morbid sensuality, 
thus what is considered a call of nature, is noth¬ 
ing more or less than a diseased state of mind. 

In summing up the contents of the few pre¬ 
ceding pages, it may be noted that nothing 
definite has been said relative to the beneficial 
effects, both physical and mental, which invar¬ 
iably result from normal, healthy, sexual inter- 


86 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


course, which effects, in themselves alone, 
should be sufficient guidance to those who are 
desirous of attaining the fullest measure of bliss 
in wedlock and further enhancing the pleasures 
of the marriage relation. It should likewise be 
taken as a warning, where these physical and 
mental benefits are conspicuous by their 
absence, that the laws of nature have been 
abused to a more or less extent, depending on 
the frequency with which sexual connection has 
been carried to excess. As already stated, the 
capacity for sexual intercourse varies according 
to the sexual appetite of the individual, just as 
the pleasure derived from any other appetite 
depends on the capability or capacity to 
appease that appetite. No rule or law can be 
laid down which may be observed by one and 
all. The happy, joyous feeling which should 
follow as a result of normal, healthy sexual 
congress is very noticeable and leaves an in¬ 
vigorating effect on the whole system. This is 
only as it should be and is easily explainable 
when one takes into consideration the fact that 
every organ in the body has a special task 
assigned to it, the proper fulfilment of which 
is indispensable to development and consequent 
health and happiness. Elasticity of body and 
clearness of intellect are very perceptible. The 
exhilarating effects on the spirits and the gen¬ 
eral tonic effect on the whole system are such 
as to be easily discernible, enabling the indi¬ 
vidual to more fully perform the duties of the 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 87 


day. The pleasurable effect brought to bear 
upon all of the organs of the body resembles 
that which results from the fulfilment of every 
duty necessary to the success or welfare of the 
individual. On the other hand, where a 
tremulous feeling asserts itself, accompanied by 
debility, dejection, lack of buoyancy, lessened 
power of concentration, with a tendency to 
suffer from mental worry, or distress, with little 
or no provocation, then sexual intercourse has 
been indulged in to excess. These warnings 
should be sufficient to deter the individual from 
further excesses. If not heeded in time, they 
may result in more serious consequences. Over- 
indulgence of the sexual relation and masturba¬ 
tion, in their effects, are practically alike in this 
respect. When co-habitation becomes suffi¬ 
ciently frequent as to cause these conditions, 
it is imperative that the intervals between each 
act of congress be lengthened. 

Adaptation to Nature’s Laws. The adapta¬ 
bility of ourselves to natural conditions means 
ease and grace of movement, along the lines of 
progress, health, happiness and prosperity, with 
the least amount of friction. Nature can only 
be conquered by obeying her. The inner sen¬ 
sations must correspond with outer impressions, 
in every particular, before there can be a cor¬ 
rect judgment formed by the mind. The knack, 
or habit, of seeing things in their true relative 
proportions is the first necessary requisite for 


88 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


right relationship. Such relationship is not de¬ 
pendent upon the sense of vision alone, but every 
sense and faculty of the human understanding 
must be brought into active use. The welfare, 
health and even the life of the physical body 
rely upon the skill of the intellect to give in¬ 
stantaneous interpretation to the sensations. 
The sensation, if one of fear, as if suddenly con¬ 
fronted by a very poisonous reptile, will be in¬ 
terpreted from past experience or acquired 
knowledge, as a warning, and immediately pre¬ 
paration is made for defense or flight, depend¬ 
ing upon the occupation or character of the 
individual. The smooth, noiseless, easygoing, 
frictionless movements depend upon the ability 
of the individual, either through cultivation of 
the instinct, by a long continued process of re¬ 
fusing the harmful and accepting the beneficial 
or through the tact, skill, art or shrewdness 
gained through knowledge or experience. 

In conclusion it might again be said that 
knowledge of the fundamental elements of sex 
phsyiology and a thorough appreciation of such, 
is of paramount importance, and would help 
considerably to alleviate the conditions which 
exist in a good many unhappy unions and pre¬ 
vent immorality in marriage, in the greater 
number of instances. If the information which 
this book contains leads the reader towards this 
goal or helps in alleviating the conditions which 
obtain in a good many unhappy homes, the 
writer will consider he has been amply repaid. 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 89 


LESSON VIII 

MISTAKES OF THE BRIDEGROOM 

The newly wedded bride and bridegroom can¬ 
not be too careful in their sexual relation and 
should look upon this phase of their existence 
as nature’s means to a beautiful end. Nature 
can only be conquered by obeying her. This 
should be borne well in mind by the newly mar¬ 
ried lovers. Too frequent sexual intercourse 
may be indulged in to the detriment of both 
parties. Temptation should, therefore be 
avoided in the marriage relation, as when 
sweethearts. Satiety is to be condemned, as it 
impairs passion and is detrimental to health, 
and if continued, will undoubtedly kill the love 
which made the marriage union sacred. 

The depravity of gratifying your passion ex¬ 
cessively, should in itself, be sufficient excuse 
for preventing overindulgence in sexual inter¬ 
course. Overindulgence in anything is a sin 
against nature and brings in its path, disaster 
and ruin, and is especially applicable to exces¬ 
sive gratification of your sexual desires. Exer¬ 
cise of your will-power is therefore to be highly 
commended in the sex relation. Anything which 
tends to weaken your will-power should be 
scrupulously avoided, as it is the supreme power 
bestowed upon mankind. Some of the male sex 
have, what might be termed, an uncontrollable 


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Plate VI 



Posterior View of Trunk Showing Lungs, Kidneys and Other Im¬ 
portant structures 
























AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 91 


sex nature, due, primarily, to weakness of the 
generative organs, brought on by want of clean¬ 
liness, perverted ideas and wrong habits of liv¬ 
ing, or in very rare cases, from some inherited 
trait. Sitz baths, taken regularly, and other 
forms of cold water bathing, strengthen the 
organs of generation, clean and prevent any 
superfluities which may collect on and around 
the glans, and accompanied by good wholesome 
literature and clean thoughts, will eliminate this 
abnormal condition. 

Happiness in Marriage. Happiness in marri¬ 
age is one of God's greatest gifts to mankind. 
It has been well said that “Happy marriages are 
made in heaven." No man or woman can ex¬ 
pect complete happiness in wedlock, who do 
not look upon their marriage tie as sacred. 
Cleanliness, therefore, in all things, body, soul 
and mind, is a prerequisite to the ultimate, ever¬ 
lasting success of either sex. Cleanliness in 
everything pertaining to the sexual organs is of 
the utmost importance, especially so in the case 
of the young woman. Everyone must admit 
that the same law should govern the actions of 
both sexes. In spite of this fact it must be ad¬ 
mitted that society forgives the man for many 
indiscretions, which, if committed by the woman 
would be looked upon with askance and, in 
very, very many instances, would cause her 
ostracism and consequent social degradation. 

There are many married couples, in all walks 


92 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of life, who, if told they were living a life of 
immorality, would be greatly chagrined, to say 
the least. Nevertheless such has been proven 
to be the case, unknowingly, without doubt, in 
the greater number of instances. Sensuality of 
either sex is primarily, if not wholly, responsible 
for immorality in marriage. A sensual nature 
will sacrifice the happiness and comfort of self 
and mate to appease his or her abnormal pas¬ 
sion. Carnal gratifications are debasing and 
will, most assuredly, wreck the hearth and 
home, if not held in check. 

Love, the essence of married happiness, can¬ 
not possibly survive, where sensualism is the 
predominating feature of the married relation. 
The bridegroom should bear well in mind, if he 
desires to hold the love of his spouse, that he 
should be ever and always on his guard against 
carnality in any form and act accordingly. 
There is, admittedly, great temptation, on the 
bridal couch, to overindulgence in sexual in¬ 
tercourse and, ere well the bridegroom knows 
the fatal result of his concupiscence, he has 
wrecked, what, in all probability, otherwise 
would have been a happy married life. The in¬ 
timacy of the marriage relation should be no 
excuse for carnal pleasures. There is a happy 
medium in all things. If there is one place more 
than another where this rule applies more 
forcibly, it is in the intimacy of the relation of 
the newly married couple. The bridegroom 
should always remember that he was chosen by 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 93 


his wife, probably, from among many, as her 
ideal mate and father of her children. She re¬ 
spected and honored him as such. She con¬ 
sidered him a man among men, and, in one 
sense, a leader of his kind. Once this respect 
and reverence is lost, love soon vanishes, with 
the result that, what started out, to all appear¬ 
ances as an ideal union, sooner or later ends in 
utter failure. The divorce court does not tell 
all. It behooves the bridegroom, therefore, to 
curb any unnatural passion which may assert 
itself. Eternal vigilance should be his watch¬ 
word. To this end he should do everything 
possible to strengthen his will-power. The wife 
has it within herself to aid and assist him, and 
should use every means in her power to do so, 
and, in time both will, in all probability, dis¬ 
cover that the end justified the means used, to 
bring about the ideal conditions and wedded 
happiness, which should prevail and which na¬ 
ture intended for those who abide by her laws— 
a happy married union. 

Lustful Embraces Wreck Marriage. It can¬ 
not be too strongly impressed upon the mind of 
the bridegroom that any unnatural or deformed 
ideals he may have cultivated relative to the 
bridal couch, during his past life, when he may 
possibly have indulged not wisely but too well 
in so-called affairs of the heart, or in his deal¬ 
ings with lewd women or misinformed com¬ 
panions, that he is entering into a new phase of 


94 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


his existence, which calls for the best that is 
within him, morally, mentally and physically. 
He should therefore throw into the discard any 
distorted ideas, false notions or impressions he 
may have formed from his past experiences. 
Many what would otherwise have been happy 
married unions have been completely wrecked 
on the rocks of ignorance, due to wrong ideals 
and impressions obtained in youth and early 
manhood. 

There are many, otherwise perfect specimens 
of manhood, physically, mentally and morally, 
who, due to the fact that they have been misin¬ 
formed and maliciously so in a good many in¬ 
stances, in their earlier days, on sex affairs in 
general and married life in particular, believe 
it is quite right and proper to indulge in sexual 
intercourse as freely and promiscuously as they 
deem fit, immediately they take unto themselves 
a spouse. They do not seem to think for even 
one short minute that full and complete ac¬ 
quiescence on their wife’s part, not passivity, is 
of the most vital importance, if the ultimate last¬ 
ing success of the marriage relation is the end 
for which he is striving or the goal to be reached. 
What many a newly made husband considers 
his just marital rights is nothing more or less 
than enforced slavery from the viewpoint of the 
newly made wife, whom he swore to love, honor 
and esteem. Such actions on the part of the 
husband lowers him from the start in his wife’s 
estimation, in fact to such an extent during the 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 95 


first few days of their wedding as to cause her 
to yield passively and in a goodly number of 
instances, with repugnance to his advances and 
loving embraces, to which she considers herself, 
and rightly so, a slave. 

The question may be asked, what is the bride¬ 
groom to do in a case of this kind? At this 
stage of the game the writer fears nothing can 
very well be done to allay or remedy the evil 
already wrought, as once the love and respect 
of a good, pure, chaste woman is lost it rarely 
can be retrieved. The wife may continue to 
rear your children and prove a boon companion 
to you in need, but never, never, will she look 
upon you as she did previous to your display of 
lust during the earlier part of your honeymoon. 

Consummation of the Sexual Relation. The 

writer, during his travels on the South African 
continent, received an invitation to a wedding 
festival in Cape Colony, where a prosperous 
Malay merchant's daughter became the bride of 
a member of her own race. Immediately fol¬ 
lowing the marriage ceremony, the bride was 
led from the altar and escorted to her father's 
house, where she was to remain in seclusion, 
within the precincts of the paternal home, for 
several days and sleep under her father's roof 
each night during that period, previous to again 
meeting her husband, who then took her to her 
new home. Being a particular friend of the 
family I was informed, in answer to my query 


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for an explanation, that they were following an 
ancient custom, which was adhered to rigidly 
by some of the better class, well-to-do families. 

Were such a custom in vogue today we firmly 
believe it would be for the immense betterment 
of mankind. Notwithstanding the fact that 
this custom is practically obsolete today and 
would be looked upon in our country as anti¬ 
quated and out-of-date, it undoubtedly had 
many redeeming features, chief of which might 
be considered the benefits which the newly 
made wife derived therefrom, in giving her 
a chance to recuperate from the stress and 
worry of the marriage ceremony and wedding 
festival, and its accompanying excitement, not 
to mention the fatigue incident to preparing for 
such an event. The nervous strain, brought on 
by the many little annoyances and worries 
which the average young woman has to undergo 
in preparation for what might be termed the 
crowning event of her life, and the excitement 
incident thereto, has an exhausting, nerve 
wrecking effect on the newly made bride. She 
has been working under high pressure for days 
and weeks before the wedding ceremony takes 
place, probably, with the result that when the 
reaction of the high tension, under which she 
has been living, sets in and the strenuous efforts 
she has undergone, have ceased, she is much 
more in need of both physical and mental rest 
than she is of undergoing the excitement at- 


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tendant on the consummation of the sexual re¬ 
lation. 

If the newly married husband or bridegroom 
would only take this phase of the subject into 
consideration and act accordingly, he would be 
far better advised than to force his attentions 
upon his newly acquired mate at a time when 
such conditions prevail. At the conclusion of 
aforementioned rest period, or let us say after 
the first few days of the honeymoon, it is ample 
time to think of consummating your sexual de¬ 
sires. Even then, great care should be taken by 
the bridegroom not to abuse the privilege be¬ 
stowed upon him by coarseness, grossness or 
lasciviousness in any form whatsoever. The 
bridegroom should at all times have an intelli¬ 
gent appreciation of the many little courtesies, 
delicacies and risks involved in the newly mar¬ 
ried relation and be as considerate, loving and 
gentle as it is possible to be under such circum¬ 
stances. The bridegroom should always re¬ 
member, in fact he should keep it uppermost in 
his mind, that the future happiness of himself 
and his newly wedded spouse depends entirely 
upon his actions at those critical moments. He 
should also bear well in mind that any untoward 
act committed, whether indiscreetly or other¬ 
wise, will be registered against him in big black 
letters on the mind of his newly wedded partner. 

Happy is the man who, after the honeymoon 
is a past, pleasant memory, still holds the rever¬ 
ence, respect and love of his wife as he did in 


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their courtship days. It has been truly said 
that, “Love of man's life is a thing apart, of 
woman her whole existence." 

Pure, unadulterated love means life itself to 
woman. Everything else comes a poor second. 
Even gratification of the sexual instinct is of 
secondary importance in the life of a woman, 
arguments and statements to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding. It therefore behooves every man, 
who desires complete bliss in wedlock, to do 
everything in his power to strengthen that love, 
for, as already stated, once it is lost it can never 
be wholly retrieved. 


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LESSON IX 

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE 
MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE 

ORGANS 

It is of vital importance, not only for the in¬ 
dividual, but for the betterment of the race in 
general that every man and every woman should 
have at least some knowledge of the reproduc¬ 
tive organs of the human body. It is rarely 
this knowledge is imparted in such a way as to 
be readily understood by the average individual. 
Scientific knowledge on this very important 
subject is gotten up in such a manner and elabo¬ 
rated on to such an extent that it, in reality, be¬ 
wilders rather than helps the average reader. 
In bringing this subject before our readers we 
have endeavored, to the full measure of our 
ability, by the elimination of all irrelevant mat¬ 
ter, to reduce it to a concise, condensed, yet 
sufficiently explanatory composition. In its 
preparation we have endeavored to present in 
as perspicuous a form as possible, free from 
superfluities, information, which, to a certain 
extent, would otherwise be more or less inac¬ 
cessible to the average layman. 

Prudery, false modesty and antiquated ideas 
have covered this subject with such a cloud that 
it is well-nigh impossible for the average in- 


100 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


dividual desiring such information to obtain it 
in a plainly understood and intelligent manner. 

The parents of the young man and young 
woman deem it unnecessary and unwise, due, 
principally to ancient prejudices, to impart any 
information whatsoever which, in their foolish 
opinion might be misinterpreted or misconstrued 
by their children and act accordingly by allow¬ 
ing them to develop into the bloom of full man¬ 
hood and womanhood in complete ignorance of 
the laws and functions which govern their sex 
organism. Is it any wonder, where such con¬ 
ditions obtain that so many young men and 
young women go astray from the paths of vir¬ 
tue, in the greater number of instances, unin¬ 
tentionally, for want of advice and education on 
the most important functions which govern their 
existence? 

As already stated, false prejudice and custom 
have hidden this subject behind such a cloud 
of mystery that the young man or young woman 
who desires information along this line is con¬ 
sidered, to say the least, premature and over- 
inquisitive, if not impure in soul and unclean 
in mind. Their moral character is under sus¬ 
picion, as is their modesty, for even attempting 
to seek information on this very important 
phase of their young lives. These conditions 
are especially applicable to the young woman, 
who is looked upon with suspicion at every turn 
and treated with a certain form of contempt for 
simply endeavoring to obtain some knowledge 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 101 


of her sex-nature, its use and its abuse, etc. 
Happily such conditions are being slowly, but 
nevertheless surely, relegated to the long-for¬ 
gotten past and a brighter future is in store for 
those who would understand the real condi¬ 
tions underlying the reproduction and perpetu¬ 
ation of the species. 

In describing the reproductive organs of man, 
it might be interesting as well as instructive to 
note that, if the male were followed from the 
time of birth on up to maturity, several im¬ 
portant phases would be noticeable. At birth, 
the testes (testicles), will have descended into 
the scrotum and there be normally lodged. 
Under some abnormalities, however, the testes 
or testicles do not descend but remain within 
the abdominal cavity, or they may descend or 
ascend at intervals. In cases where the testes 
or testicles do not descend into the scrotum, 
there are possibilities of sterility in the indi¬ 
vidual. Much variation, however, occurs along 
these lines. If it is possible for the testes or 
testicles to pass into the abdominal cavity, the 
intestine may pass down through this cavity 
and cause a ruptured condition or inguinal 
hernia. 

REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS OF THE MALE 

In normal male individuals, the reproductive 
organs, or the external and internal genitalia 
are as follows: The Penis and Scrotum on the 


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external side, with the Testes or Testicles; 
Vas Deferens, or tube leading from the penis; 
Seminal Vesicle; Prostate Gland and Epi¬ 
didymis on the internal side. 

The Penis, located at the pelvic region of the 
human trunk, is the most pronounced organ 
of the male genitalia and is composed of a 
spongy, erectile tissue and urethra, or tube, 
which leads from the bladder to the penis, for 
the carriage of the urine and seminal fluid. It 
completes, in conjunction with the vagina in the 
female, the function of coition. The prepuce, or 
foreskin, as it is more commonly called, acts as 
a covering for the end of the penis. 

The Scrotum, situated immediately behind 
and below the penis, is a covering for the testes 
or testicles, which is divided into right and left 
halves, on the inner side and contains a testicle 
on either side. 

The Testes or Testicles are two in number, lo¬ 
cated in the scrotum and composed of a large 
number of tubes from which the Spermatozoa 
or generative seed of the male develop. These 
coiled tubes unite together into a conical mass, 
which unite with the vasa efferentia, eventually 
connecting with the epididymis and finally con¬ 
necting with the vasa deferentia. 

The Vas Deferens connects with the lower 
part of the epididymis, passing through the pel- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 103 


vis and abdominal wall to connect with the 
seminal vesicle. 

The Seminal Vesicle or reservoir for the sper- 
matazoa are two in number, situated on either 
side and below the bladder and connect with 
the urethra. 

The Prostate Gland is situated at the begin¬ 
ning of the urethra and is composed of muscular 
and fibrous tissue, also glandular cells, which 
produce a liquid secretion of unknown function. 
It compares in size with an ordinary full-sized 
chestnut. 

The Epididymis is a long coiled tubular por¬ 
tion of the internal genitalia or inner repro¬ 
ductive organs, connecting the vasa efferentia 
with the vas deferens. 


REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS OF THE 

FEMALE 

The external and internal reproductive or¬ 
gans, or the external and internal genitalia of 
the female comprise the following: 

The Labia Major, located on the outer edge 
of the external genitalia and, unless when con¬ 
tracted, covering the clitoris and labia minor, 
corresponds with the scrotum in the male and 
extends backwards from the mons pubis or 
pubic mountain. They are composed of folds 
of skin tissue in the form of lips. 


104 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


The Labia Minor, located immediately inside 
and, unless separated, covered by the labia ma¬ 
jor, is composed of thin folds of skin, forming 
what is commonly known as the inner lips. They 
unite both above and below the vagina and ure¬ 
thra. 

The Gians Clitoris, located just above the 
union of the labia major and labia minor, sur¬ 
rounded by a small sheath or hood, which, at 
its extremity, resembles a very tiny bulb, cor¬ 
responds with the glans of the penis in the male 
and like the latter, being very sensitive and sus¬ 
ceptible to excitement, is the leading cause of 
the sensation derived by the female during sex¬ 
ual intercourse. 

The Hymen, located just below the urethra 
opening and between the lips of the labia minor, 
forms a complete covering for the vagina in 
certain forms of virginity. This does not nec¬ 
essarily prove that, where the vagina is not com¬ 
pletely covered by the hymen or in cases where 
this membrane is broken or punctured, that vir¬ 
ginity does not exist. Where this fallacy orig¬ 
inated we cannot say, but it has been proven 
conclusively that absence of the hymen is no 
criterion that a young woman has lost her vir¬ 
gin purity or maidenhood. This is another anti¬ 
quated idea which it would be well for every 
young man and young woman to dispel from 
their minds, as it is nothing, more or less, than 
a ridiculous fallacy. The hymen is composed 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 105 


of a skin like tissue or mucous membrane, hav¬ 
ing the shape of a crescent. 

The Oviduct or Fallopian Tubes are attached 
to the uterus on either side. The oviduct or fal¬ 
lopian tubes, which are convoluted, carry the 
ovum or egg from the ovary or abdominal cavity 
down into the uterus to either be passed to the 
exterior at menstruation or be fertilized at preg¬ 
nancy. The fallopian tubes are connected with 
the uterus in the middle line of the body. At 
the opposite end they are free and greatly en¬ 
larged. This free end, which is fimbriated or 
fringed, comes in contact with the ovary, ordi¬ 
narily at the time of ovulation. 

The Vagina is composed of muscular and 
erectile tissues. It extends from the uterus to 
the outer part of the genitalia, or generative or¬ 
gans, in the'form of a channel through which 
the menstrual fluid passes. Childbirth also takes 
place through this passage or channel. It is lo¬ 
cated between the bladder and rectum. It con¬ 
nects with the urethra and bladder abdominally. 
Its lining is composed of a mucous membranous 
substance. 

The Uterus, which, in the fully matured 
woman, is somewhat in the shape of a pear, is 
located in the pelvis, between the rectum and 
the urinary bladder. The muscular fibre which 
composes the walls of the uterus is very strong 
and pliable. The uterus, being called upon at 


106 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


childbirth, to expel the fetus, has sufficient 
power, in a normal healthy woman, to expand to 
an extraordinary degree, thereby, due to its 
capability of expansion, making childbirth com¬ 
paratively easy. It is hardly necessary to men¬ 
tion here that, during pregnancy, the uterus con¬ 
tains the fetus, expelling it at birth. 

The Ovaries are the organs wherein the ova, 
or eggs, develop in the female. They are of an 
elliptical shape, two in number, located, one at 
either side of the uterus. 

As already stated in our introductory to this 
subject, we have attempted to explain as clearly 
and concisely as possible, without any superflui¬ 
ties, what we deem sufficient knowledge con¬ 
cerning the reproductive organs in both the 
male and the female, or, in other words, the 
process of regeneration and we earnestly trust 
aforementioned description is sufficiently ex¬ 
planatory to benefit those men and women, 
whom prejudice and custom have prevented 
from otherwise obtaining information on even 
the most elementary principles which govern 
their existence. 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 107 


LESSON X 

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION 

The entire human organism is dependent on 
the germ cells, the egg and the spermatozoa 
for its development, the ovum, or egg, formed 
in the adult from a great number of potential 
eggs, which have developed from the early em¬ 
bryonal life. In the newly born female there 
might be found, in round numbers, approxi¬ 
mately five hundred thousand of these potential 
eggs, but upon examining the ovum at the age 
of maturity only approximately one-tenth of this 
amount, or about fifty thousand, could be 
found. The explanation for this, lies in the fact 
that the remaining cells have distintegrated. Of 
this number only a comparatively few could be 
completely developed and extruded, if only one 
were liberated at a time, as it is generally be¬ 
lieved, over a period of thirty odd years, or, in 
other words, from puberty to menopause, which 
latter occurs about the age of 45. 

Menstruation. The period of puberty, as 
already made mention of in another part of this 
book, depends greatly upon climatic conditions 
. and may occur at any age from eleven or twelve 
to seventeen and eighteen. The age at which 
puberty arrives depends also upon health con¬ 
ditions and racial characteristics. The age of 


108 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


fifteen, under ordinary conditions, is generally 
conceded to be around the period of puberty. 
It is at this time of their lives that the child-bear¬ 
ing potentialities have been gained by youth. 
At this period of their existence, menstrual 
flows have started, either regularly or irregu¬ 
larly. 

The adolescent period covers close to three 
years, from the age of puberty as stated above, 
at fifteen years, to approximately eighteen years 
old, when the young woman becomes mature in 
every sense of the word, with the development 
of rounded figure, including the enlargement 
of the breasts and hips. 

Menstruation, if regular, will occur about 
every twenty-eight days, varying in some cases, 
according to the physical characteristics and 
general health of the individual, from about 
twenty to forty-two days. Menstruation is called 
the “Period” and consists of many accompany¬ 
ing phenomena, the first of which is accom¬ 
panied by a peculiar warning sensation and even 
pain in some instances. This period is marked 
by increase of vascular content and glandular 
secretion of the uterus, with accompanying in¬ 
crease of the connective tissue of the cells of the 
uterus. At the end of this preliminary period 
there follows the true period of menstruation, 
which may last from three to five days. This 
period is marked by sloughing off of this thick¬ 
ened inner coat and some of the underlying 
layer, probably causing the discharge of some 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 109 


blood of this coat, which had collected during 
the period of congestion. Contraction of the 
uterus occurs at intervals which are painful and 
weakening. Following this period there is a 
regeneration of the lining cells of the uterus, 
which have been sloughed off during the men¬ 
struation proper, the uterine glands having now 
become normal in their secretion. 

Menopause. Menopause, or what is com¬ 
monly called “change of life” in the female, is 
the change which comes to all women after their 
period of sexual activity, when their regular 
menstrual flows and ovulation cease. Gener¬ 
ally, many other changes may be co-incident 
with this critical period in a woman’s life. The 
general health may show a decided improve¬ 
ment or be impaired to a more or less extent. 
Even change of eyesight has been known to 
occur at this period. Some of the accompani¬ 
ments of menopause are described as feelings 
of hot flashes, rush of blood to the head or face, 
some slight digestive disturbances, etc. 

The woman now begins to realize that her 
sexual life is becoming less active and she can¬ 
not give birth to children. The latter gives rise 
frequently to a feeling of despondency and emo¬ 
tional unstableness, exhibited by fits of crying, 
irritability, peevishness, etc. The menstruation 
is irregular. The latter may skip two or three 
months and the woman may become unwell pe¬ 
riodically for several months. This irregularity 


110 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of menstruation may persist over a period of 
two or three years, before menstruation entirely 
ceases. The aforementioned symptoms of meno¬ 
pause may be fleeting and of no consequence. 
They may, however, become so severe that med¬ 
ical attention should be sought for their relief. 
At this period of life, cancer of the uterus or 
cervix may develop. 

Pain, as a symptom of cancer, is too often a 
late symptom. However, should pain develop at 
any time during or after menopause it should re¬ 
ceive careful investigation. Any blood stains on 
the linen, which may appear as merely small 
blood spots or any sudden considerable loss of 
blood, which cannot be satisfactorily accounted 
for, is also deserving of the most careful investi¬ 
gation at this time of life, in order to success¬ 
fully combat the possibilities or probabilities 
of a cancerous growth in or around the uterus 
or cervix. It therefore is of the utmost impor¬ 
tance that every woman who reaches menopause 
should watch carefully for any symptom, no 
matter how slight, which may be the forerunner 
of cancer and thereby save herself unnecessary 
suffering and possible death. If she has any 
doubts whatsoever regarding her condition she 
should visit her physician without delay, for, as 
already stated, pain, as a symptom of cancer, 
comes too late in a great many instances to ef¬ 
fect a cure. 


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OVULATION 

Ovulation, or the escape of the ovum, or egg, 
from the ovary, does not always occur at exactly 
the same time as menstruation. Ovulation may 
precede menstruation, or follow it within one 
or two weeks. Ovulation may even occur with¬ 
out any definite time relation to menstruation. 
Ovulation has been known to occur even during 
pregnancy. If the liberated egg becomes fertil¬ 
ized by the spermatozoa, changes, at once, begin 
to occur, which eventually result in the forma¬ 
tion of a new life. 

Fertilization may be possible in the fallopian 
tubes, or oviduct, but it also occurs in the cavity, 
immediately after its leaving the ovary and after 
its descent from the fallopian tubes. Sperma¬ 
tozoa, upon entering uterus, must work its way 
up into the tube against the beating of the hair 
like projections, which are called cilia and 
therefore its movements are slow compared to 
its normal movements, as it is said to take ap¬ 
proximately ten hours to reach the ovum, or 
egg. Only one spermatozoa generally penetrates 
the ovum, (egg) and causes fertilization, but 
many may attempt the entrance. When the 
spermatozoa comes into contact with the ovum, 
or egg, the head becomes buried, while the tail 
soon disappears. The head of the spermatozoa 
develops the nucleus which unites with the fe¬ 
male egg nucleus to give rise to the paternal 


112 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


characteristics of the developing embryo or 
child. 

At ovulation, usually only one egg is liberated 
at a time. Sometimes, however, two or more 
ova, or eggs, are ripened and extruded, fertiliza¬ 
tion and development occurring from each 
ovum, or egg, making twins or triplets of the 
ordinary variety, which are not necessarily of 
the same sex, but may be both. 

If one egg, however, becomes ripened and 
extruded, it may upon fertilization, start in its 
process of development and after its first divi¬ 
sion, when the two cells are formed, each of the 
two cells may separate and from each cell a 
complete individual may become developed. 
Both embryos will, however, be different from 
the normal twins, in that they are developed 
within the same embryonic membranes and also 
that they are of the same sex and almost identi¬ 
cal in the detail of their features, actions and 
emotional characteristics. If the two cells do 
not completely separate, as is described in our 
explanation of the identical twins, but partial 
separation takes place, each side developing 
into an individual with some connecting link be¬ 
tween, abnormalities are formed. If the two are 
separate at the head region, but connected to¬ 
gether at the other extremity, double-headed 
monstrosities may develop. When the graafian 
follicle or matured egg becomes developed un¬ 
til it is ready for expulsion, it comes to the sur¬ 
face of the ovary, begins to protrude and finally 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 113 


the follicle wall breaks, leaving the egg to pass 
out of the wall with the surrounding follicular 
liquid. This process is accompanied by the move¬ 
ment of the end of the fallopian tube. The fim¬ 
briated membrane, or end of the oviduct, comes 
closely in contact with the region of the ovary 
from which the ovum (egg) is to be expelled 
and as a result, the egg passes down into the 
tube, by a wavelike contraction of the oviduct. 


IMPLANTATION 

As soon as the ovum, or egg, has become fer¬ 
tilized, it begins its development, but has not 
as yet started its development at the expense 
of the maternal tissue surrounding it, being at 
this stage, free in the tube. Upon the liberation 
of the ovum, or egg, into the abdominal cavity, 
there is formed upon the ovary a yellowish spot, 
which is of great significance, in that this spot 
assists in the implantation of the egg in the 
uterus, by a secretion which it liberates. The 
ovum (egg) then passes down the tube until it 
comes to the uterus, where it begins to surround 
itself by the lining tissues of the uterus, grad¬ 
ually absorbing some of this tissue. Gradually 
it becomes enlarged and its parasitic character 
begins absorbing more and more of the parental 
substance. 

From this small beginning, there is fully de¬ 
veloped, in the course of nine calendar months, 


114 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


or ten lunar months, the child and, as it is then 
able to maintain a separate existence, it is ex¬ 
truded from the uterus, or, in plain words, born 
into the world. 


DEVELOPMENT 

The single ovum, or egg, with the two nuclei, 
that of the spermatozoa and the ovum, now 
undergo changes of a very definite character. 
The entire cell becomes so arranged that half 
of the contents becomes formed into one cell on 
one side and half forming into another cell on 
the other side. Then follows a second division, 
dividing the two cells into four cells, then into 
eight cells by equal division of the previous four 
and then, by further division, into a mass of 
cells called the morula or mulberry stage. The 
cells at this stage, being massed together, have 
a very close resemblance to a mulberry. Be¬ 
cause of this resemblance they are called the 
morula or mulberry stage. At the mulberry 
stage they become greatly enlarged. 

A cavity now appears on the inside of this 
mass of cells, which gives rise to two kinds of 
cells, separated by a liquid, which gradually in¬ 
creases the size of this vesicle. At this stage 
the ovum, or egg, generally becomes implanted 
in the uterus. From now on, the embryo de¬ 
velops into a more shapely mass than has pre¬ 
viously been seen. At one end, nearest its at¬ 
tachment, small irregular projections develop 


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that make a definite contact with the uterine 
walls, while, at the opposite end much smaller 
projections develop, these later becoming in¬ 
significant, while the others develop into the 
placenta, by which the embryo receives its nour¬ 
ishment for its development. The inner cells 
mass now becomes thickened into about three 
cell layers and a protecting sheath and cavity 
begins to form the amnionic cavity and amnion, 
which plays a very important part in the pro¬ 
tection of the embryo, with its amnionic fluid, 
which also is an added protection. If this is 
lacking, the amnion presses against the embryo 
and causes deformities. 

At this stage the embryo is very insignificant, 
appearing as merely two irregularly shaped, 
what we might term, lobes inside of the uterine 
wall. Gradually the embryo enlarges until about 
the end of the first lunar month, when the em¬ 
bryo is about three thirty-seconds of an inch in 
length. Seven days later it has more than dou¬ 
bled in length, being a little over three-six¬ 
teenths of an inch long. During this time it has 
not only become elongated, but has developed 
an animal like form, with tail like projection, 
head well developed, eyes and ears beginning to 
show and about five lobe like projections on the 
underside of the head. These latter projections 
eventually give rise to the facial parts, includ¬ 
ing the upper and lower jaws, nose, tongue, etc. 
The limb buds are, at this stage, well developed, 
as is the heart, liver and developing kidneys. 


116 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


The embryo has now a definite stalk or attach¬ 
ment, called the umbilical stalk or cord from 
which the amnion seems to arise and also a sac 
like projection, the yolk sac, and a very insig¬ 
nificant tubular projection, the allantois. If the 
back of the embryo were examined at this stage, 
muscle plates would be discernible, which re¬ 
semble the back bone, but, in reality, are only 
the muscles which are the forerunners that help 
in the formation of the embryo preparatory to 
the formation of the bones. 

Before the end of the second lunar month the 
embryo develops almost human facial charac¬ 
teristics, the forehead having become enlarged, 
eyebrows and eyelids beginning their develop¬ 
ment, the nasal cavity having separated from 
the mouth cavity and the upper and lower jaws 
developed so far as to be completely covered 
by the upper and lower lips. The head has now 
become more straightened and resembles more 
the human form. The limb buds are fairly dis¬ 
tinct in their development and are plainly visi¬ 
ble. The tail, which at the earlier part of the 
first lunar month was clearly perceptible, is now 
greatly diminished. The length of the embryo 
at this period would be about an inch. Due to 
the rapidity with which the embryo develops 
hereafter, during the ensuing two months, the 
prospective mother almost invariably suffers 
considerably from nausea, lack of appetite and 
general physical derangement. During this pe- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 117 


riod, or at the end of the third month, the 
embryo develops into the fetus. 

At the conclusion of this period, or the fourth 
lunar month, the weight of the fetus is approx¬ 
imately two to two and one-half ounces and 
about five and one-half to six inches in length 
from crown of head to heel. The umbilical at¬ 
tachment, or cord, has become very much elong¬ 
ated and vastly different in general appearance, 
a twisted shape taking place of the former 
heavy set attachment. At the end of the fifth 
lunar month, signs of life in the fetus is very 
discernible by the mother, which will show it¬ 
self in many forms, such as a slight knock 
against the abdominal wall, stretching and 
twisting of the fetus to a more or less greater 
extent. At the end of the sixth month, the ap¬ 
proximate length and weight of the fetus is re¬ 
spectively twelve to thirteen inches and 
twenty-two to twenty-four ounces, length meas¬ 
ured from crown of head to heel. At this stage 
the nails and hair have distinctly developed, 
while in the previous stage, though visible, did 
not appear to be nails in the adult sense, but as 
a crescent shaped depression. 

At the end of the seventh month, which is 
the most dangerous month of gestation, the 
pregnant woman, or expectant mother, should 
be extremely careful not to over exert herself or 
become excited in any way, shape or form, as 
any extra strain, shock or unusual excitement 
may cause premature birth. It therefore be- 


118 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


hooves the carrying mother to be exceedingly 
careful during this critical period. The fetus at 
the end of the eighth month, is approximately 
fifty to fifty-five ounces in weight and sixteen 
to seventeen inches in length. The fetus at this 
stage, although very much enlarged, does not 
take up the space one would think it should 
judging by its length, due to the fact that the 
fetus is in a state of flexion or what might be 
called, curled up, thereby making a more com¬ 
pact mass or bulk, so to speak, to prevent over¬ 
crowding the viscera or internal organs of the 
mother. With the exception of size and weight, 
the fetus is now a completely formed child. At 
the termination of between two hundred and 
seventy and two hundred and eighty days, or 
approximately ten lunar months, birth should 
take place under normal circumstances. 

It might be well, for the reader’s guidance, to 
mention here, that the actual date of birth might 
be misjudged, owing to the fact that menstrua¬ 
tion is possible one lunar month after conception 
and therefore it would be necessary in such 
cases to count back to the menstrual period pre¬ 
vious to conception. It should therefore be 
clearly understood that menstruation may occur 
after conception, the latter not necessarily pre¬ 
venting menstruation at that time. 


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LESSON XI 

CHILDBIRTH WITH CARE OF THE MOTHER 

AND CHILD 

It may sound almost incredible, but it is, 
nevertheless, a startling fact, that there are a 
vast number of fully matured women, not to 
mention the younger generation, who have not 
even the remotest idea of the full meaning of 
childbirth. For the guidance of those women, 
as well as their younger sisters, who have not 
had an opportunity of receiving instruction on 
this subject, of such vital importance to their 
welfare, the following brief description of what 
childbirth really is may be instructive and help¬ 
ful : 

Childbirth is nothing more or less than a sep¬ 
aration of the fetus from the maternal tissues 
and its removal from the body of the mother, 
or, in other words, the natural separation of the 
placenta from the walls of the uterus. At child¬ 
birth, the fluid contained in the amnion, or the 
sheath surrounding the fetus, is liberated and 
the fetus begins its movement to the outer world. 

Childbirth is accompanied by pains of a very 
striking character, usually beginning in the 
lumbar region, or back and extending anteriorly 
to the abdominal region. They are at first fif¬ 
teen to twenty minutes apart, but gradually this 
interval is lessened and the pain becomes more 


120 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


severe. These pains are incident to contraction 
of the uterus and force the bag of water into 
the vagina, thus dilating the lower portion of 
the uterus, known as the cervical portion. The 
woman, at this stage, will possibly feel like she 
is not making any progress towards delivery. 
She should, however, remember that each of 
these pains help materially in effecting this im¬ 
portant dilatation. When the latter is complete, 
the membrane or bag of waters generally rup¬ 
tures. At this stage, the uterus can act directly 
upon the fetus and the woman, as a conse¬ 
quence, recovers her composure and becomes 
encouraged. The impulse to bear down, during 
the latter stage, or when the membranes burst, 
should be resisted, as too rapid descent of the 
fetus, or baby, does not give sufficient time for 
the stretching of the perineum, causing the lat¬ 
ter, very often, to be thus, severely lacerated. 
The mother giving birth, should keep the mouth 
open, breathe fast or even cry out to prevent too 
rapid expulsion of child, or birth. After rupture 
of the membranes, normally, expulsion of the 
child takes place in from one and one-half to 
three hours. 

After the delivery of the child, the labor pains 
cease for a short time. During this interim, 
there is a gradual separation of the placenta or 
afterbirth from the uterus. In from twenty to 
thirty minutes, the pains recur, the uterus con¬ 
tracts forcibly and the afterbirth is expelled. 
The uterus, during this stage of labor, should 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 121 


remain contracted and firm, and any tendency 
to its becoming flabby or dilated should be 
counteracted by gently massaging it with the 
hand. It is of the utmost importance that the 
placenta and membrane be carefully examined 
by the physician to see that no part of either 
has been left in the uterus. With the removal of 
the placenta and membrane, labor, or child¬ 
birth, is completed. After the expulsion of the 
placenta, it is customary to give one teaspoonful 
of Fluid Extract of Ergot in order to insure con¬ 
traction of the uterus. 

After the completion of labor, or childbirth, 
the mother is cleansed and a sterilized pad, 
made of gauze and absorbent cotton, is placed 
over vulva and held in position by pinning it to 
the abdominal binder. The latter acts as a splint 
to the abdomen and assists materially in sup¬ 
porting the circulation, and in enhancing the 
comfort of the mother. The latter's movements 
should be restricted at this time and she should 
be instructed to keep the lower limbs in contact 
as much as possible in order to preclude any 
possibility of development of air embolium, or, 
in other words, from air being drawn into vagina 
and from the latter into the large open uterine 
sinuses, or veins. She should now be given some 
nourishment and allowed to obtain some much 
needed rest. The baby, in the meantime, should 
have had the following care: 

Immediately after birth the baby's mouth, 
nostrils and eyes should be cleansed and mucus 


122 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


or other secretions removed, and breathing es¬ 
tablished. The umbilical attachment, or cord, 
should have been tied at about three quarters 
of an inch distant from the abdomen and a 
proper dressing of gauze applied, held in place 
by abdominal band. The eyes should have been 
treated by dropping one drop of one per cent 
solution of silver nitrate in them, or two drops 
of a twenty-five per cent solution of argyrol. 
The baby should now be cleaned with a piece of 
gauze and sterile olive oil, and attired in the 
customary clothing, which should consist of the 
napkin, or diaper; the cotton shirt, covering 
only the chest; the flannel skirt and gown. The 
mother, now having had some rest, the nipples 
should be cleansed with a solution of boric acid 
and the child put to the breast to nurse. After 
nursing of the nipples, the latter should again 
be cleansed with the boric acid solution and 
dried. The baby should be allowed to nurse 
every four hours for the first three days, then 
every three hours thereafter during the day and 
every four hours during the night. The bathing 
of the baby depends greatly on the circum¬ 
stances of the parents. The baby of well-to-do 
parents is very often bathed every morning, due 
to the fact that the parents have every conven¬ 
ience, with modern equipment, for doing so, but 
a general bath three times a week, is sufficient. 
It is all essential that the napkins should be 
changed immediately they are soiled. The at¬ 
tachment, or cord, usually drops off by the sev- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 123 


enth or eighth day after birth and should only 
be inspected or dressed by the physician or 
nurse under usual sterile precautions. 

The vulva of the mother should be dressed 
every four hours, also after every bowel move¬ 
ment or urination, the patient should have the 
soiled pad removed. She is then placed on the 
bed pan, which should be cleansed with anti¬ 
septic solution or frequently boiled after being 
used. The nurse should now cleanse her hands, 
then prepare a one per cent solution of lysol 
and place same, with a sterile pad, conveniently 
by the bed or nearby table. The above solution 
is allowed to flow over the vulva, from a pitcher, 
some of it entering the vagina. The vulva is 
then dried and the sterile pad pinned in place. 
During this procedure the nurse should take 
care that her hands do not become soiled with 
the discharge, as infection is liable to be con¬ 
veyed, in this manner, to the nipples of the 
mother, or the mouth, eyes or navel of the child. 

Urine is usually passed within eight hours 
after delivery. If the mother complains of be¬ 
ing unable to void urine, hot drinks may be given 
in quantities of one or even two quarts, place 
patient on warm bed pan and pour warm water 
over the vulva. While the patient is on bed pan, 
allow the water to run from the tap, or faucet. 
The hearing of the running water has a ten¬ 
dency to excite contraction of the bladder, the 
urine being thus expelled. The patient should 
be left alone when these expedients are being 


124 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


used. Hot water bottle may be placed over blad¬ 
der while patient is on bed pan. Some slight 
pressure may be made over the lower part of 
abdomen. Should aforementioned methods fail 
in producing the required result, catheterization 
must be done under aseptic precautions. 

The food for the first twenty-four hours 
should be in liquid form. During the next two 
days the diet should be of semi-solid character, 
such as eggs, toast, tea, baked potato, rice, milk, 
etc. The bowel should be caused to move by 
giving S. S. enema every other day. The milk 
begins to appear in breast by the end of the 
third day, when some pain and engorgement 
will be present. The latter occasions some dis¬ 
comfort and is met by application of a breast 
binder, which lessens the engorgement and sup¬ 
ports the enlarged breasts. The patient may be 
allowed to lie on her side and to turn in bed ap¬ 
proximately eighteen hours after delivery of 
child. The abdominal binder should be tight¬ 
ened night and morning. The patient receives 
a bed bath each morning and a rub with thirty 
to fifty per cent alcohol at bed time. The mother 
is allowed to sit up by the tenth day, if all is 
going well and should be at her usual household 
duties by the end of the twenty-first day. 

It should be remembered that it requires a 
period of six weeks for the uterus to undergo 
involution, or, in plain words, to return to its 
size and consistency which obtained before im¬ 
pregnation occurred. During this period the 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 125 


woman should not lift or carry heavy burdens, 
or unduly strain her physical strength in any 
way, for fear of retarding aforementioned in¬ 
volutionary process. 

It may be well to state here that childbirth is 
much easier with young women of not over 
twenty-three to twenty-five years, simply due 
to the fact that the pelvic girdle is much more 
plastic, or pliable, than in women of more ma¬ 
ture years. It is an erroneous idea for women to 
think that having once given birth to child, 
makes consequent childbirth easier. Such is not 
always the case. Childbirth, after an absence 
of several years, is just as difficult with women 
of very mature years, as if they had never pre¬ 
viously become pregnant or given birth. The 
first pains during childbirth are of a mild, 
slowly recurring type, followed by pains of a 
very sharp and more rapidly recurring nature. 
The latter are, what are commonly called, “la¬ 
bor pains.” During the rapidly recurring pains, 
or labor period, the child's head, under normal 
circumstances, is close to the opening of the 
vagina and by the contraction of the abdominal 
wall and the wall of the uterus, it is pushed 
through the comparatively narrow neck of the 
pelvic girdle. Due to the flexibility of the head 
of the child, it can pass the opening of the pelvic 
girdle of the average woman with comparative 
ease. Normally, presentation of the child oc¬ 
curs with the head first. Various modifications 
of presentation, however, occur at childbirth, a 


126 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


good many of which, to say the least, are ex¬ 
tremely dangerous to both mother and child. 
Where head presentation does not occur, suf¬ 
focation of the child is possible, due to the fact 
that the head of the child remains in the ab¬ 
dominal cavity while the other part is coming 
into the outer world. 

Severe complications of labor are infrequent. 
However, any labor may be accompanied by 
such complications. The services therefore of 
a good obstetrician is an absolute prerequisite 
to successful childbirth and are to be highly 
commended at all times, even in the most simpli¬ 
fied cases of delivery, if only for the fact that 
aforementioned complications are liable to oc¬ 
cur when least expected. 

However, should birth occur in the absence 
of a physician, due to the fact that the arrival 
of baby upset all calculations, it would be well 
to remember that everything should be as 
spick-and-span as possible. Absolute cleanliness 
should be the watchword of all in attendance. 
The wearing apparel, bedding, bedroom, etc., 
should be as clean as it is possible to have it. 
Every precaution should be taken to have the 
hands, wearing apparel and everything that is 
liable to come in contact with the patient thor¬ 
oughly cleansed. It is important that the 
patient be allowed to evacuate both bladder 
and rectum. The latter should however come 
naturally, without any undue strain or effort 
by the patient. Childbirth, being the natural 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 127 


result of the marriage relation, should, under 
ordinary circumstances, be permitted to take 
its natural course without interference, as 
nature will, unless unforeseen circumstances 
arise, attend to the delivery of the child. All 
that is really necessary in a case of this kind is 
to have the patient placed on her back in a 
lying position with legs drawn up and apart, 
and nature will do the rest. 

It is however of vital importance, should a 
physician not arrive upon the scene in the mean¬ 
time, in an emergency where difficulty is ex¬ 
perienced in giving birth, owing to the baby's 
shoulders in a head presentation, that the 
nurse, midwife, or attendant be acquainted with 
the nature of the presentation of the baby. In 
such an emergency it is highly advisable to 
insert forefinger under child's armpit and thus 
help birth by very gently drawing towards you. 
In the majority of cases, this help will aid child¬ 
birth considerably, under aforementioned cir¬ 
cumstances. Immediately baby is born, the 
mouth should be cleaned of mucus. When baby 
cries or otherwise shows signs of life, a strong 
string should be wound tightly around the navel 
cord and knotted, two inches or thereabouts and 
four inches, respectively from stomach. The 
cord is then cut between the two knots. If the 
afterbirth is slow in passing, gentle massage or 
slight pressure by the hand on the abdomen, 
will have a stimulating effect on the womb and 
thereby help the latter to expel the placenta. 


128 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Before attempting this procedure, time should 
be given for nature to take its natural course. 
To prevent possible hemorrhage, it is advisable, 
in the absence of a physician, to have the 
abdomen bandaged firmly with a wide, strong 
bandage. 

It is of the utmost importance that the mother 
be permitted to lay perfectly still after child¬ 
birth, in order to prevent accident. The least 
exertion undergone by the mother the better. 
After a complete rest and, possibly, some re¬ 
freshing sleep, it may be advisable to change the 
bed clothing, linen, etc. This should be done 
without exerting the mother, who, if possible, 
should be allowed to lay in the same position. 
Meanwhile the baby should be gently rubbed 
with oil and clothed. A bath in warm water 
should be given baby the following day, then 
dressed and laid along with mother. 


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LESSON XII 

PREGNANCY AND SEX DETERMINATION 

The period of growth from conception to 
birth, or the time from which the ovum becomes 
impregnated until confinement and ultimate de¬ 
livery is what is known as pregnancy or gesta¬ 
tion. The pregnant period, or the actual time 
from conception to birth is approximately nine 
calendar months, or forty weeks, or two hun¬ 
dred and eighty days. There are many physical 
signs by which the average healthy woman may 
tell whether or not she has become pregnant. 
The stoppage of the monthly flow or menstrual 
period is a very strong indication in the majority 
of cases that she has conceived. There are ad¬ 
mittedly instances where skipping of the men¬ 
strual period did not prove that the woman was 
pregnant. Those instances are liable to occur 
to any woman, especially where she has shown 
some weakness or irregularity previously. 

Unless in cases where irregularities have oc¬ 
curred heretofore, it may usually be taken for 
granted that the cessation of the monthly period 
by the normally constituted woman, is conclu¬ 
sive proof in itself that she has become preg¬ 
nant. It is doubly certain if she skips a second 
period. Another very striking sign of preg¬ 
nancy, which, however, will not be noticed until 
after the second month, is a slight enlargement 


130 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Plate VII 


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surface and in saqiital section 


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body 


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AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 131 


of the abdomen, hardly perceptible at first, but 
sufficiently noticeable to the future mother and 
will gradually become enlarged and protrude 
until delivery or childbirth occurs. If, at any 
time, the pregnant woman has any doubts along 
this line, she should pay a visit to her doctor and 
thereby allay any apprehension she may feel 
concerning her exact condition. 

It is in fact highly advisable for the pregnant 
woman to make periodical calls on her physi¬ 
cian during the time she is with child, or at least 
after the first few months have gone by, if she 
can possibly afford to do so, thereby alleviating 
any possibility of accident during this critical 
period. To those who cannot afford a physi¬ 
cian’s attention and advice, it might be oppor¬ 
tune here to state that the pregnant woman 
should be moderate in all her undertakings. 
Moderation in all things is an absolute prere¬ 
quisite to successful motherhood. Extremes in 
any direction are very inadvisable and in many 
instances, hurtful and may even have a disas¬ 
trous effect upon both the mother and child. 
Plenty of fresh air and a moderate amount of 
exercise daily should be indulged in. 

Unless the pregnant woman develops a capri¬ 
cious appetite, as occasionally happens with 
some women at this period of their lives, she 
may eat whatever her normal appetite craves. 
Farinaceous foods, with abundance of milk, but¬ 
termilk for preference, but all kinds of milk 
help and, if she does not become constipated, 


132 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


should constitute part of her daily menu. Plenty 
of vegetables, green for preference, and fruit of 
all kinds are to be recommended. She should 
drink water several times during the day, be¬ 
tween meals. Hot or warm water may be taken 
with immense benefit in the morning on arising 
and again during the day at certain intervals. 
Meat should be eaten sparingly, partaken of 
say once a day, during the mid-day meal for 
preference. Plenty of sleep is absolutely re¬ 
quisite and rest during the day between exer¬ 
cises is advisable. Regularity in eating, drink¬ 
ing, exercising, sleeping, etc. is of primary im¬ 
portance to the woman anticipating childbirth, 
especially during the last few months of gesta¬ 
tion or pregnancy. 

The newly married, or those anticipating 
wedlock, should dwell long and seriously on the 
fact that pregnancy is the result of one of the 
most sacred and important laws of nature and 
should be treated accordingly by eternal vigi¬ 
lance on the part of both the contracting parties, 
the prospective father of the coming child, in 
his actions towards the prospective mother dur¬ 
ing this critical period, the latter being espe¬ 
cially careful, if only for the good and sufficient 
reason that any untoward act may have an in¬ 
fluence on her offspring. The relation between 
the mother and the unborn babe is of the most 
intimate nature. Her breathing, eating, drink¬ 
ing, all have an immediate effect on the child, 
her emotional nature especially so. It behooves, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 133 


therefore, the pregnant woman to be at her best 
at all times, as the influence on her offspring 
cannot help but be highly gratifying. 

Sex Determination. A good many theorists, 
of the various schools of medicine, believe that 
within certain limits, the mother has it within 
herself to bring into the world just such a child 
as she wishes. This is a rather sweeping state¬ 
ment to make, if only for the sound reason that 
very, very few women, indeed, have the ideal 
mental and physical conditions they really wish 
for during pregnancy. 

Dr. Sarah M. Hobson, president of the Ameri¬ 
can Homeopathic Institute fraternity, is author¬ 
ity for the statement, given in a speech in 
Chicago in June, 1922, that babies of order 
will be known to future generations of parents. 
Doctor Hobson expresses the belief that present 
experiments in the determination of sex will 
ultimately be developed to a state of practical 
usefulness and that the sex of a child will be 
determined by the parents as a matter of course. 

This distinguished physician candidly admits, 
however, that the question of sex determination 
will not be solved during her time, but firmly 
believes that it is only a matter of time when 
the solution of this problem will be satisfactorily 
arrived at. 

In presenting some of the views of this 
learned authority to our readers it might be 
well to use her own words, which are as follows: 
“Coming generations will be able to predeter- 


134 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


mine sex of children—so that an average may 
be maintained. It will not be in my time,” this 
physician says, “but I believe that it is coming 
and it is a good thing. No family should be 
composed of all boys or girls. Children of both 
sexes should make up the normal family.” 

Some scientists claim that sex determination 
is an admitted fact, that it is possible to bring 
children into the world with given trends of 
character, thereby making it possible, event¬ 
ually, for the disappearance of the greater part 
of our shiftless population. One learned au¬ 
thority writes: “Though the question of Sex 
Determination has been a subject of discussion 
and deep thought for many years, and that very 
little progress has been made along this line it 
is nevertheless, within the realms of possibility 
that the discovery of this secret will be unrav¬ 
elled eventually, and, like every other secret of 
nature, will in all probability, be found to be 
very simple.” 

Another learned writer claims that the pro¬ 
duction of male children requires greater vital 
force on the part of the parents than the pro¬ 
duction of female children and cites as exam¬ 
ples to prove his theory the fact that in the case 
of healthy, full-blooded parents, who possess 
abundance of energy and vital force, their first 
offspring is invariably a male child. Many 
writers on this much debated and interesting 
subject claim that this is as near as nature will 
permit us to go in determining the sex of the 


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embryo, much less successfully using artificial 
means to influence the determination of its sex. 
The question has been brought up from time to 
time: Can outward influence have anything to 
do with bringing into the world a male or female 
child as the case may be during the embryonic 
stage ? 

Some advanced thinkers, including among the 
number, many physicians, are of the opinion 
that, notwithstanding the fact that outward im¬ 
pressions and influences may have a material 
effect on the mother and her offspring, it can 
have no effect in the least in determining the 
sex of that offspring during the embryonic 
stage. It has been said that where one or other 
of the parents is possessed of much stronger 
vital force than his or her mate, it will assert it¬ 
self in many ways in the child, but not suffi¬ 
ciently so to determine its sex at any time pre¬ 
vious to birth. Other writers claim that the 
healthier, stronger and more vigorous the 
mother is the more likelihood there is of such a 
mother giving birth to a child with inherent 
characteristics, and, on this basis, figure that 
the solution of sex determination, if such solu¬ 
tion ever materializes, will come through the 
mother of the offspring. Some learned authori¬ 
ties claim that where the mother is well nour¬ 
ished during the pregnant stage, the child of 
such a mother will be a female. They base their 
opinions on what they consider proven facts, in 
that the contented, happy, well nourished 


136 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


woman, during pregnancy conveys extra nour¬ 
ishment to the unborn infant. 

These writers in taking issue with some of 
their contemporaries along this line, further 
base their theories on the belief that it takes 
more vitality in the embryo stage to produce a 
female than a male child. They cite as exam¬ 
ples to prove their theory the fact that in times 
of peace and plenty, when food may be had in 
abundance and prosperity is the order of the 
day, more female children are born than male. 
While, on the other hand, during the aftermath 
of some great disaster, epidemic, scourge, or 
war, etc., when times are pressing hard and the 
fight for existence is a difficult one, with food 
and the necessaries of life not easy to be had, 
more male children are invariably brought into 
the world than female. 

Looking at the subject from the point of view 
of these theorists, it would seem that the 
healthier, better fed, more prosperous and con¬ 
tented the mother is the more female children 
will she bear, while on the contrary, the poorer, 
more discontented, weakly, and under-nour¬ 
ished the woman is, the more likelihood there 
is of her bearing male children. Many un¬ 
doubtedly would pooh-pooh these statements 
and bring forth instances to prove the imprac- 
tibility and fallacy of such theories. There are 
exceptions to every rule and that this theory 
does not necessarily prove its impracticability, 
for, as already stated in previous pages, there 


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are very, very few women, who have the ideal 
mental and physical conditions they wish for 
during their period of pregnancy, which con¬ 
ditions would be absolutely necessary to fully 
prove aforementioned theory. 

With all the claims which have been made by 
sex writers and others, relative to sex determ¬ 
ination, we have yet, so far as the writer is 
aware, to learn this secret of nature and must 
only content ourselves by awaiting further ex¬ 
periments along this line and with the thought 
that the future may hold the solution of this 
very interesting and seemingly intricate prob¬ 
lem. We are learning more and more of the 
secrets of nature every day. Man is ever rest¬ 
less in his quest for knowledge and who knows 
but the day will eventually come when this law 
of nature will be discovered and like other 
secrets of nature, may possibly be found to be 
very simplified indeed. If it is ever discovered, 
the possibilities are that we will be surprised at 
its simplicity. 


138 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


LESSON XIII 

BIRTH CONTROL 

It is a subject of fervent discussion and deep 
thought, by some of our most learned writers, 
as to the advisability of bringing large families 
into the world, quality not quantity being the 
goal for which those theorists are striving. 
Whatever may be said for or against this argu¬ 
ment, it is an absolute certainty that there are 
women, who are not constitutionally fitted by 
nature to rear large families. There are many 
women in our midst, who, due, principally, to 
some constitutional weakness, either inherited, 
or otherwise, would have been far better ad¬ 
vised not to have entered into the bonds of 
matrimony. These women would, under ordi¬ 
nary circumstances, have lived a much happier 
life of single blessedness. Abuse of the sexual 
functions, with the wear and tear of battling for 
an existence, in this age of keen competition, 
in many walks of life, may be said to have a 
deteriorating effect on the minds of many, 
otherwise fairly healthy women. Others, due to 
their lack of proper moral training and inherent 
characteristics, and who follow the line of least 
resistance, or what, at first is pictured in their 
mind’s eye as the easy life, or primrose path, 
may be said to swell the number. There are, 
unfortunately, many other women, in all classes 


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of society, who have abused nature’s laws to 
such an extent, that it is, practically, an impossi¬ 
bility to expect them to successfully give child¬ 
birth. 

Nervous Breakdown. A visit to our eleemosy¬ 
nary and other institutions would prove the fact 
that Nervous Breakdown has increased tremen¬ 
dously in the past quarter of a century. Notwith¬ 
standing the fact that everything is done in 
those institutions for the comfort and welfare 
of those unfortunately so afflicted, including 
the judicious use of therapeutic measures and 
the application of every remedy known to med¬ 
ical science, it goes, beyond saying, that you 
cannot, permanently and effectively cure any 
disease until the cause is removed, and as long 
as society continues to travel at its existing pace, 
so long will nervous breakdown survive. How 
often do we read and hear of Mrs. X. suffering 
from nervous prostration or mental breakdown. 
Our large cities are full of such cases. Our rural 
communities are far from being exempt from 
similar examples. They are of everyday oc¬ 
currence in all walks of life. No one can be said 
to be so constitutionally perfect as to be im¬ 
mune from this disease. Our private hospitals, 
sanitariums and even our insane asylums can 
tell of innumerable such cases. Many recover, 
some temporarily, and very, very many, indeed, 
suffer complete mental collapse. It has to be 
admitted again, that heredity plays a very im¬ 
portant part in nervous disease, but not all. 


140 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Many cases of Nervous Breakdown may be di¬ 
rectly traced to some inherited trait, but many, 
many more may be said to be the cause of ex¬ 
isting conditions of present day society. If there 
is one subject, more than any other, which has 
come up for heated discussion, among some of 
the leading members of the medical profession, 
during recent years, it is the subject of Birth 
Control. No one can get away from the fact 
that it is of vital importance as concerns the 
future of the race. 

Contraception. Birth Control methods, in 
brief, are simply the means used, whereby off¬ 
spring are conceived only in the number and 
when the parents deem it desirable. Among the 
methods in use, are Continence (in whole or 
part) ; Semi-Continence, which, according to 
leading scientists, is a union based on affection, 
whereby the outlet of the purely physical desire 
is restrained; and Contraception. The latter 
preventive measure has received more attention, 
from a scientific viewpoint, than any other form 
of Birth Control. We will, therefore, begin by 
demonstrating, as clearly and concisely as pos¬ 
sible the method known as contraception. The 
latter is nothing, more or less, than avoiding the 
elements of reproduction of the union of both 
sexes, while, at the same time, having normal 
sexual intercourse. 

The writer wishes at the outset to guard 
against any possible misconception of the na- 


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ture and character of the matter contained here¬ 
in, and wishes to emphasize, with all the 
strength within him, that the contrast between 
contraception and abortion is as far apart as 
the North and South Poles. It cannot be too 
strongly emphasized that there is no relation 
between them. The intelligent reader can easily 
reason this fact out for himself. By contracep¬ 
tion, is merely meant, avoidance of the elements 
of reproduction of the two sexes. Abortion, on 
the other hand, in plain language, means mis¬ 
carriage or premature birth. The former is sim¬ 
ply a preventive measure, the latter is the de¬ 
struction of what had already functioned in 
part, a possible human being. The contrast be¬ 
tween contraception, in the writer's opinion, and 
absolute continence, looking at it from a moral 
viewpoint, is conspicuous by its absence, argu¬ 
ments and sermons to the contrary notwith¬ 
standing. The writer has made an exhaustive 
study of this subject and is willing to acquiesce, 
wholeheartedly, in the statements and lectures 
given by some of our most learned writers and 
thinkers, insofar as educating the public, 
through scientific methods, in favor of judicious 
and legitimate Birth Control. 

The stringent laws which obtain in the United 
States today, make it an absolute impossibility 
to diffuse, in any manner whatsoever, knowl¬ 
edge, relative to methods of contraception. It is, 
under existing circumstances, a crime against 
society and punishable as such. It is the law of 


142 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


our land and all good citizens should abide 
thereby. We, however, sincerely believe, beyond 
the question of a doubt, that the day will event¬ 
ually come when parents will be permitted to 
say when and how many children they will have 
or want, and that preventive measures, judi¬ 
ciously and intelligently used, will be the order 
of the day, instead of being considered a crim¬ 
inal offense, as it is now, to diffuse any knowl¬ 
edge whatsoever towards that end. 

In fact such great pressure has already been 
brought to bear, in various circles of society 
throughout the United States, to abrogate, annul 
or, at least, modify the present laws which ob¬ 
tain, relative to disseminating any knowledge 
tending to prevent conception, that we firmly 
believe it will be only a matter of a short time 
when such laws will be repealed, if sufficient 
pressure is brought to bear upon Congress, 
which makes it a crime, punishable by hard la¬ 
bor in our Federal Prisons, to diffuse or dis¬ 
seminate, in any manner whatsoever, informa¬ 
tion on this very vital subject. When one sits 
and thinks for even one short moment, it does 
seem very strange indeed that, in a country like 
the United States, where, among the more in¬ 
telligent and enlightened members of society, 
very large families are the exception and not 
the rule, and where preventive measures of 
some kind or other have undoubtedly been 
applied to cause such a condition, such stringent 
laws should be laid down, making it a crime, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 143 


punishable by imprisonment, to diffuse scien¬ 
tific knowledge along the lines of Birth Control 
and to intelligently discuss the safest and best 
means to prevent conception, or by which 
contraceptive methods may be safely and 
judiciously applied. 

As already stated, blunders and mistakes are 
and have been made in the use or abuse rather 
of preventive measures, due primarily if not 
wholly to ignorance of the proper methods to 
apply. Would it not have been far better for 
society in general to educate those people on 
Birth Control methods and how they may be in¬ 
telligently and judiciously used, if only to pre¬ 
vent further mishaps in this direction through 
ignorance of the proper means whereby they 
may limit the number of their family to one, two 
or as many children as they believe they have 
means to support properly. This is, in brief, 
the belief of some of our deepest thinkers and 
most learned writers on the subject. It is also 
the chief motive behind the numerous lectures 
on Birth Control and other propaganda dis¬ 
tributed throughout the country by some of our 
most advanced thinkers and philanthropists. In 
other words, Education vs. Ignorance is the 
watchword of all Birth Control advocates. 

Limitation of Offspring. All self-respecting 
married couples are opposed utterly to charity 
in any form, either for themselves or their chil¬ 
dren. Is it not, therefore, only natural to expect 


144 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


that such parents would much prefer limitation 
of their offspring according to their means, 
whereby they would be fully capable of prop¬ 
erly caring for, comfortably supporting and edu¬ 
cating their children, than to be overburdened 
with large families, without the necessary means 
to accomplish their hearts desire. They are com¬ 
pelled to seek charity in some form or other in 
order to properly rear their families and, in a 
good many instances, to even supply them with 
only the bare necessaries of life. It is a well- 
known fact, as any observant person may notice, 
that, in the majority of instances, it is those who 
can least afford to do so, who bring large fam¬ 
ilies into the world. On the other hand, the re¬ 
verse might be said to be the case with the 
wealthier or well-to-do classes, who, from a 
financial viewpoint, can more easily bear the 
burden of large families. We would like, very 
much indeed, to see those existing conditions re¬ 
versed. It is to the former or poorer classes of 
society that, we believe, Birth Control methods, 
judiciously used, would prove the greatest boon 
and benefit society in general accordingly. It 
cannot be gainsaid that the keen competition to 
be met with in many walks of life and the very 
limited remuneration received by the average 
worker for his services, prevent many men and 
women from entering into the bonds of matri¬ 
mony. The reasons for this are obvious. Fear 
of the responsibilities attached to rearing large 
families and the possibilities of being thrown 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 145 


out of employment, with a paltry pittance, the 
limit of their savings, to sustain the lives of 
themselves and their family, prevent many men 
and women from joining hands in wedlock. 
Were Birth Control or contraceptive methods 
legitimatized, thereby making it possible for 
these men and women to obtain scientific in¬ 
formation on limitation of offspring, we firmly 
believe that single blessedness, beyond the mar¬ 
riageable age, would become, if not wholly con¬ 
spicuous by its absence, a rarity. 

The married couple who do not desire chil¬ 
dren are very, very rare indeed, the paternal or 
maternal instinct being uppermost in all of us. 
There is, however, a happy medium in all things. 
This rule applies just as forcibly to the bringing 
into the world of large families as it does in any 
other phase of existence. Many men and women, 
who would much prefer married life or wedded 
bliss to a life of celibacy, are only prevented 
from entering into the married state by the be¬ 
lief that large families are the possible ultimate 
result, or, in other words, the rule, not the ex¬ 
ception to such a union. They feel that they can 
support themselves and bring progeny into the 
world on a limited scale, say two, three, or pos¬ 
sibly four children, but are deterred from the 
marriage union by the fear of a larger family, 
with insufficient means to comfortably support 
them. Should not the marriage of these men 
and women be encouraged in every possible way 
by enlightenment on how they may attain their 


146 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


highest ambition and not discouraged by the 
existing conditions which obtain in society and 
the stringent laws which make it an absolute 
impossibility to diffuse any information on this 
vital subject, whereby limitation of offspring 
may be made possible? We will leave this 
question also to be answered by our readers and 
feel safe in depending on their judgment to 
arrive at a just and equitable decision. 

Contraception—Use and Abuse. Some may 
think, including moralists, social reformers, etc. 
that if Birth Control or contraceptive methods 
were permitted openly, that the privilege would 
be greatly abused and are only prevented for 
these reasons alone from encouraging their use. 
History does not prove this to be so. In order 
to prove the fallacy of this belief we have only 
to take, for example, those countries where 
Birth Control methods are practised openly and, 
in some instances, legitimatized by the govern¬ 
ment. Parts of the Australiasian continent 
might be said to come under the former head¬ 
ing, including the country of New Zealand, 
where the application of Birth Control methods 
are almost universal and where ignorance of 
the proper means to apply might be said to be 
the exception and not the rule. The country of 
Holland is another glaring example of the many 
advantages of education along the lines of Birth 
Control. Not only does this country belie the 
statements and ridicule the beliefs of afore- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 147 


mentioned moralists, reformers, etc., who are 
prevented from encouraging the use of contra¬ 
ceptive measures for fear their proper use might 
be misconstrued, or openly and intentionally 
abused, but it can be said of Holland that there 
are no healthier or more perfect physical speci¬ 
mens of the human race extant. 

It has also been proven that in those countries 
where Birth Control, or contraceptive measures 
are intelligently and judiciously used to limit the 
number of offspring the death rate diminishes 
perceptibly. We make this statement with our 
eyes wide open to the fact that there are many 
arguments and preachings to the contrary or, in 
other words, that opponents of legitimate, prac¬ 
tical, scientific Birth Control, claim that its uni¬ 
versal use would tend towards the deterioration 
of the race and a considerable falling off in 
numbers, or reduction in our population. This 
theory may look good to the unthinking person. 
Such a statement undoubtedly sounds very con¬ 
vincing at first hand and may appear very rea¬ 
sonable on the face of it, but the real 
facts underlying the health and population in 
communities where Birth Control measures are 
thoroughly understood and scientifically ap¬ 
plied shows the fallacy of this statement and 
the impracticability of such theories. 

Notwithstanding the sincerity of those theor¬ 
ists who are opposed to the scientific applica¬ 
tion of Birth Control, the writer wishes to take 
exception to their theories and is willing to base 


148 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


his opinion on well proven facts. We have al¬ 
ready attempted to prove, in another part of 
this book, that quality predominates where the 
number of children are limited according to the 
physical and financial conditions of the parents, 
the former being especially applicable to the 
mother, whose health should be par-excellence, 
in order to bear and rear robust, healthy, happy 
children. 

The integrity or veracity of the foregoing 
statement should be obvious to any thinking 
person. Having, as already stated, attempted, 
or endeavored, to prove our theories along this 
line, in other pages, we will not, therefore, go 
into further detail on this phase of the subject. 

Race Suicide. Let us take up the claim of 
lessening the population, or race suicide, made 
by those opposed to Birth Control. We will put 
the following question squarely up to our read¬ 
ers and leave it to their intelligence to arrive at 
a correct solution: Does a diminishing birth rate 
necessarily prove a decreased population? We 
say no, under existing conditions of society, 
where the parents, comprised principally of the 
poorer classes, bring large families into the 
world with insufficient means whereby, even 
the bare necessaries of life are difficult to be 
had, or where constitutional weakness in either 
one or other of the parents is present, or where 
the burden of bearing and rearing offspring has 
a tendency to lower the vitality of the mother, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 149 


or for various other reasons, which are too num¬ 
erous to mention. 

Opponents of Birth Control will undoubtedly 
cite many instances where some members of 
large families were leaders among their kind, 
in the various branches of learning, athletics, 
etc., including statesmanship, religion, science, 
feats of physical strength, etc. and who were, in 
fact, physical or mental giants, or both. These 
instances do not, in themselves, prove that those 
adherents to the opposite belief, or, in other 
words, that those antagonistic to Birth Control, 
are right in their theories. There are exceptions 
to every rule and the reader will find such ex¬ 
ceptions, the more the subject is made a special 
study of, to be rare, everything being equal. 
Let us go back again to the teachings of the 
opposition, wherein the statement is made that 
a decreased birth rate must necessarily mean 
a decreased population. This statement at a 
first glance, would seem somewhat convincing 
to the average reader, who was not aware of 
the actual facts. But let the reader ponder 
awhile on the subject and look into the real 
conditions underlying the birth rate, especially 
in European countries and that of our large 
cities, and compare that birth rate with that 
of those countries already made mention of in 
the foregoing pages. Is the population of Hol¬ 
land decreasing? Positively not. The opposite 
is the condition which obtains in Holland and 
has obtained since Birth Control measures have 


150 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


been legitimatized. Why? This question might 
well be asked. Simply and solely due to the 
fact that the death rate, compared to the birth 
rate, has been proven to be less than in those 
countries where Birth Control is considered an 
unknown quantity. 

Statistics, throughout the civilized world, 
prove beyond all question of a doubt, that 
where children are born into the world in a 
haphazard manner, so to speak, the country suf¬ 
fers a loss instead of a gain. On the other 
hand, where parents intelligently limit their 
offspring, the opposite condition is more apt 
to be the case. For, after all is said and done, 
it is not the large birth rate which counts, in 
the long run, but the birth rate, which permits 
the children to develop mentally and physically, 
thereby lessening the possibilities of their early 
demise, or, in other words, it is not the number 
of babies which are brought into the world, but 
the number which survive and reach the full 
bloom of perfect manhood and womanhood, 
that cut a figure in this work-a-day world. 

Does it not sound reasonable that the child 
of good, sound healthy parents, when properly 
nourished by a mother who has not been weak¬ 
ened physically by giving birth to a large fam¬ 
ily, is far more liable to survive and reach 
maturity in good, sound physical and mental 
condition than the child of the mother who 
brings into the world a large number of off¬ 
spring with too much frequency, which invari- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 151 


ably happens, where large families predomi¬ 
nate? The answer to this question should be 
plain to the average reader. Even should the 
offspring of the latter live through childhood 
and reach manhood and womanhood’s estate, 
what sorry spectacles a number of them make. 
Some are weaklings, either mentally or phys¬ 
ically throughout their lives. Many morons 
come from such a source. 

A goodly number of those men and women 
in our midst, who are physically incapacitated 
from competing with their contemporaries in 
the various walks of life, might be said to have 
had their physique impaired in infancy or early 
childhood. Take the case of families or com¬ 
munities where Birth Control is properly un¬ 
derstood and contraceptive measures scientif¬ 
ically and intelligently applied. It will be noted 
that the physique of the children of such fami¬ 
lies or communities is invariably well-nigh 
perfect. The physical constitution of the people 
seems to improve, all other conditions being 
favorable, with a limited number of offspring. 
The countries already made mention of in pre¬ 
vious pages, New Zealand and Holland, are 
proof conclusive of this fact, the physical con¬ 
stitution of the people generally having im¬ 
proved to a more or less marked extent of 
recent years. 

Sterilization. The prevention of conception 
can be traced back to a very remote age and 


152 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


various preventive measures have been in vogue, 
from precautionary methods, used by either the 
male or female, to operation. We are not here 
to discriminate between the advisability and 
inadvisability of any of the aforementioned 
methods. Their approval or condemnation we 
will leave to more advanced theorists. We are 
not all constituted alike and what may be said 
to be advisable for one may be inadvisable for 
another. One thing, however, may be said in 
favor of an operation, which permanently pre¬ 
vents conception, and that is, where the woman 
is not constitutionally or physically constructed 
to give birth, or who, for other reasons would 
be far better advised not to have children. This 
method of sterilization should, however, never 
be undertaken unless it has been proven con¬ 
clusively by your medical adviser that your 
case warrants such an operation. The question 
of large families is another phase of this subject 
to be considered. Some advanced writers ap¬ 
prove of operation for sterilization in cases 
where the woman has as many children as she 
really requires and is either physically or finan¬ 
cially incapable of supporting more children 
than she has already given birth to. It is not 
too much to say, and the writer has proved it 
from actual experience, that there are many 
married men, who from moral and other view¬ 
points, associate with lewd women in preference 
to relation with their wives, due, principally, 
to the fact that their spouse is or was either 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 153 


in a poor physical state of health or to prevent 
having too many children, without the where- 
with-all or means to support them properly. 
These men are not, necessarily, depraved or 
lustful. 

It is of vital importance that good, sound 
medical advice be sought by those anticipating 
any kind of an operation for sterilization, before 
adopting this course. The same might be said 
of contraception. Due to the prohibitive meas¬ 
ures which obtain throughout this country, rela¬ 
tive to disseminating anything which might tend 
to prevent conception, it is highly advisable and 
of the utmost importance, in order to effectively 
and without injurious consequences, apply con¬ 
traceptive methods, to at first seek proper ad¬ 
vice from your physician, who is presumed to 
be skilled in all that pertains to your physical 
well-being and, therefore, fully conversant with 
such matters. 

Whether the reader seeks the advice of a 
physician or not on the use of contraceptive or 
preventive measures, it cannot be too strongly 
emphasized here that the less nature is tam¬ 
pered with the better for all concerned, if it 
is desired to enjoy the full fruits of sexual in¬ 
tercourse and the complete happiness of wedded 
bliss. It is of primary importance to the inex¬ 
perienced man or woman, that they seek med¬ 
ical advice and act accordingly, and be guided 
by resulting experiences, as to which method 
is or is not advisable in their particular case, 


154 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


for, as already stated, we are not all constituted 
alike and what may be advisable for one may 
be very inadvisable for another. It is to be 
admitted that there have been many sad mis¬ 
takes made in the use or abuse rather, of con¬ 
traceptives, due, in nearly every instance, 
primarily to ignorance of the proper means, 
whereby prevention is successfully carried out. 
Many of these unfortunate errors could have 
been easily avoided by heeding aforementioned 
advice. 

Prudery and false modesty have a deal to 
do with being the indirect cause of many mis¬ 
takes on the part of those, who otherwise be¬ 
lieve preventive measures are a boon to 
mankind. There are a number of moralists and 
others, including many physicians, who are 
either directly or indirectly opposed to pre¬ 
ventive or contraceptive measures, many of 
which make the plea that mistakes have 
and will be made and cite instances showing the 
injurious results which have been caused by the 
abuse of contraceptive measures. 

The disease of tuberculosis was unknown to 
the American Indian until the introduction of 
the white man’s wearing apparel into their 
midst, yet who would dare to come forth and 
tell us that we should go naked, as our earlier 
ancestors did, because the Indian abused the 
privilege conferred upon him. 

The arguments for and against Birth Control 
may be said to be many and varied. Birth Con- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 155 


trol, undoubtedly, has its disadvantages, but we 
must also remember the advantages which ac¬ 
crue to those who are thoroughly versed in its 
proper application. The latter greatly out¬ 
weigh the former. How many morons, degen¬ 
erates and other undesirables have we in our 
midst today? Would not this work-a-day world 
be far better rid of such specimens of the human 
race? It is a matter of deep concern and grati¬ 
fication to know that a good many of our insti¬ 
tutions have adopted the means, whereby 
sterilization may be applied not only in 
inherited traits, which have been committed 
and paroled, or discharged, as either tempor¬ 
arily or permanently cured, from our insane 
asylums, but in practically every case where 
there is a possibility of individuals transmitting 
disease to their offspring. This operation is 
invariably performed immediately previous to 
paroling, or discharging patients from the insti¬ 
tutions in question. It is a State Law and ap¬ 
plies to either sex. This is a step in the right 
direction and if applied to every State in the 
Union would be for the immense betterment of 
mankind, thereby eventually eliminating that 
portion of our population which is a burden 
instead of a blessing to society. This is a kind 
of legislation which will have a great tendency 
to reduce the number of our criminal popula¬ 
tion, empty our jails and penitentiaries, work- 
houses, insane asylums and sanitariums, by 
bringing a better class of babies into the world. 


156 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


It is a ridiculous fallacy to think Birth Control 
has any relation, in the least, to Race Suicide, 
preachings, arguments and sermons to the con¬ 
trary notwithstanding. Is it not a common ex¬ 
perience, in everyday life, to see men and 
women adopt children to make up for their 
childless marriages? How many men and 
women do we find, who, due to sterility and 
cannot, therefore, become parents, consult their 
medical advisers for a cure, whereby they can 
become fathers or mothers as the case may be? 
Very, very many indeed, dear reader. Is this 
not positive proof, in itself, that there is very 
little danger indeed of the paternal or maternal 
instinct dying out? We find many women of 
today, whose health has been impaired, to a 
more or less greater extent, some of which are 
chronic invalids, as a result of bringing into 
the world, large families and with too much 
frequency. Would it not have been better for 
those young women to have taken up the study 
of Birth Control? Would not the criminal op¬ 
eration of abortion, which many young women, 
for want of better advice, undergo, be far less 
frequent were Birth Control intelligently dis¬ 
cussed and contraceptive methods better under¬ 
stood? It goes without saying, and every intel¬ 
ligent person must admit, that any course of 
instruction, whatever it may be, which dimin¬ 
ishes criminal abortion, should be considered a 
blessing and not a crime. 

Criminal Abortion. The average reader is 


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rarely given the opportunity of learning to what 
extent criminal abortion is practised in all 
spheres of society. To attempt to do so here, 
would not only take up too much valuable 
space, but would be considered, if not a flight 
of fancy, grossly exaggerated. 

If there is one crime which deserves the full¬ 
est measure of punishment the law can inflict, 
that crime is abortion. The secrecy under which 
criminal abortion is performed makes the crime 
a difficult one to combat. The perpetrator and 
the victim alike guard the secrecy of their 
movements at all hazards. Both, through fear 
of exposure, protect each other as much as it 
lays in their power to do so, unless under very 
exceptional circumstances. It is practically 
only when the victim of this dastardly outrage 
against nature succumbs, as a result of the il¬ 
legal operation performed upon her body, do 
the arch-friends who performed such an opera¬ 
tion ever receive the punishment they so richly 
deserve. These unprincipled scoundrels practise 
their nefarious occupation throughout the 
length and breadth of the land, seeking whom 
they may devour. This atrocious calling is not 
confined to the male sex alone. There are many 
of the weaker sex who depend upon this villain¬ 
ous practice for a livelihood and reap a rich 
harvest by their wicked calling. 

There are many women who pride themselves 
on the fact that they have undergone the opera¬ 
tion of abortion successfully, or, in other words, 


158 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


without suffering any undue hardship or perma¬ 
nent injury and in a good many instances advise 
their sisters in misfortune to do likewise. Poor 
misguided women. They do not take into consid¬ 
eration the fact that criminal abortion is a crime 
against God and man, and in direct violation of 
the laws of nature, and consequently injurious 
to a more or less greater extent, even under the 
most favorable circumstances. They may think 
that they have defeated nature successfully, 
but there will come a day of reckoning, when 
they may, in all probability, live to regret the 
ill-advised course they pursued in checking 
childbirth by such destructive methods. 

Abuse of nature's laws will reap their just re¬ 
ward. “The mills of God grind slowly but 
surely." Every young woman should dread 
criminal abortion, for, as already stated, crim¬ 
inal abortion is in direct violation of all the laws 
of God and man and every woman should treat 
it as such or she may live to rue the day she re¬ 
sorted to such a dastardly method of defeating 
nature. We wish to impress on our readers 
again, that abortion is never justifiable. It is 
criminal. It is absolutely dangerous to life and 
health. It is destructive in the fullest sense of 
the word and should be treated accordingly by 
absolute refusal to resort to such a method, no 
matter what the circumstances may be, nor how 
plausible the subject may be introduced. The 
world is teeming today with women, sick and 
sore at heart, broken down in health and their 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 159 


future ruined, who were tempted to adopt this 
course, due to the plausibility with which this 
illegal operation was put before them. Very, 
very frequently indeed is the woman, who sub¬ 
mits to criminal abortion, a chronic invalid for 
the rest of her natural life. Many, many cases 
of abortion are followed by the severest form of 
illness and, in a good many instances, death and 
ultimate dishonor. Many women have had their 
lives completely ruined by adopting this prac¬ 
tice to thwart the laws of nature and compelled 
to live a life of despair, as the result of their 
error in yielding to the tempter, unintentional 
though it may have been in many instances. 
These unfortunate women would have borne 
with any suffering or disgrace if they only could 
secure their health back to where it was pre¬ 
vious to submitting to this dreadful scourge on 
society. 

Any physician will tell you that the country 
is swamped with unprincipled persons, including 
so-called physicians, who reap a fat harvest in 
the illegal practice of criminal abortion on 
young women in every walk of life. One would 
think it hardly credible, but it is, nevertheless, 
true. 

One point the writer wishes again to impress, 
very forcibly, on the minds of all young women, 
is that, no matter how grave the circumstances 
may be, NEVER, NEVER submit to criminal 
abortion. If you do not heed this advice, there 
is nothing you can say or no excuse you can offer 


160 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


society in extenuation of your perversity, as you 
lay yourself open to censure from all sides. 
Abortion, young woman, is inexcusable, no 
matter how aggravated your case may seem. 
It is a crime against all the better instincts of 
humanity and should never be resorted to under 
any circumstances whatsoever. Our large cities 
could tell a tale of many young women, with 
bright and happy futures, who are chronic in¬ 
valids and broken down in health from the ef¬ 
fects of criminal abortion, not to mention the 
countless thousands who were sent to a pre¬ 
mature grave, as the results of this dreadful 
curse. 

Any young woman anticipating abortion, 
should remember that death and destruction is 
the possible termination to such an operation, 
and the operation itself, to say the least, is de¬ 
structive in every sense of the word. She should 
always keep these facts uppermost in her mind 
and under no circumstances, no matter what the 
gravity of her case may be, yield to the tempter. 

As already stated in previous pages, limita¬ 
tion of offspring, or the power to choose when 
and how many children you wish to have or the 
number you deem desirable, is of vital impor¬ 
tance to the future of the human race. Quality 
vs. quantity is the cry of a good many advanced 
thinkers, among which are many mothers, who 
firmly believe it is an utter impossibility for the 
average woman to give birth to a very large 
family and do justice to herself and her off- 


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spring. It has been proven conclusively that 
many mothers are broken in health and strength 
as the result of giving birth too frequently and 
too often. It, therefore, stands to reason, that 
such a mother, whose vitality is already sapped, 
cannot do full justice to her babies. This is 
obvious. The children grow up puny and deli¬ 
cate in a good many instances. The nourishment 
the babe derives from its mother's breast cannot 
be equalled by any artificial nourishment. It, 
therefore, behooves any mother, who desires a 
strong, robust, healthy family to suckle her own 
children. Is a mother with a lowered vitality 
physically capable of suckling her children? 
Can she successfully accomplish this end, with 
her health and strength already sapped, beyond 
the possibility of physical endurance, through 
too much frequency in giving birth, as is usually 
the case, where very large families predomi¬ 
nate? We believe she cannot and in this belief 
we are supportd by some of our most advanced 
thinkers and humanitarians. 

The goal of each one of us should, therefore, 
be towards a better and more perfect race, men¬ 
tally, morally and physically. Towards this end 
we should strive with all the power within us, 
so that prosperity, health and happiness should 
reign throughout the whole civilized world, not 
poverty, misery and helplessness, the latter be¬ 
ing the result of begetting children, a good 
many of which, instead of being a blessing are 
a burden on society and, more or less, a curse 


162 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


on the parents who brought them into the world. 
The writer earnestly trusts that the day will 
eventually come when every man and every 
woman will see the light of this philosophy and 
act accordingly, by strict adherence to the dic¬ 
tates of their conscience, and use their utmost 
endeavors to help strengthen their will-power, 
whereby the gratification of the sexual instinct 
will be considered of secondary importance to 
the general welfare. 





Standard. Sex Knowledge and 
Healtk Encyclopedia 


Part II 



THE GIRL ON THE WRONG TRACK 


CHAPTER I 

CHOOSING THE PATH 

It is generally conceded that the modern girl, 
vulgarly known as “the flapper/’ is hard-boiled 
and frivolous, exceeding the looseness and las¬ 
civiousness of any age known in history; that 
she is given to strong drink in distressing num¬ 
bers, smokes cigarettes and too frequently 
comes under the head of the “dope addict;” 
that she fills her mind with questionable, if not 
immoral literature, indulges in improper danc¬ 
ing, and adopts an extreme mode of dressing 
and of personal adornment which is suggestive 
rather than serviceable; and it is further con¬ 
ceded that if this style of procedure is per¬ 
mitted for another decade, it will jeopardize 
the safety and continuance of our social order, 
of ideals and standards rooted in our social 
fabric by generations of wise and far-seeing 
progenitors, and will, indeed, so poison the very 
mainspring of life that a continuance of the 
race itself will be a question of but a few gen¬ 
erations. 

This is the gist of the complaint that is being 
made against the modern American girl. Not 
only made questly and fearfully within the 


166 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


walls of our own homes, but shouted from the 
housetops—from the pulpit, the popular maga¬ 
zines, the household journal, and the movie 
screen. 

The present “younger generation” has been 
in the lime-light of public opinion, and that 
public opinion an adverse one, more than any 
other generation that ever followed a worried 
parenthood to maturity. 

It is contended that we are facing something 
of a national scandal, back of which looms a 
very definite menace. The nation is in need of 
strong souls, clean, clear minds, rugged bodies, 
ambitious effort. It has great issues to meet— 
issues the like of which the world never faced 
before. Half of our earth has been torn to 
tatters; the few men and the many women in 
the war-torn nations of the old w T orld are 
buried in a resultant poverty with all its at¬ 
tendant tragedies; our own nation is the source 
toward which many of these befuddled millions 
look for direction or material help. This condi¬ 
tion will last for years to come. 

Meanwhile the present generation, the gen¬ 
eration which is to handle this tremendous 
problem is saturating itself with self-indulgence, 
licentious living, utter oblivion to everything but 
the most sensational of personal indulgences. 

In other words, our young people, our girls 
and our boys, according to the pronouncement 
of public opinion, are “going the pace that 
kills.” 


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It is the special province of this study in mod¬ 
ern girl life to give concrete facts, to hold up to 
the bewildered parent a picture of the girl, who, 
from the very record of her deeds comes under 
the above pronouncement. 

“Sub-normal cases,” many will say. But let 
us study them with open minds, and see if they 
are not types of normal girlhood, fundamentally 
like other girls—girls of our neighborhood, girls 
of our own household, at least before the be¬ 
ginning of the downward career, for one of the 
mistaken attitudes taken by the mother too 
frequently is that an erring girl does what she 
does because—well, she is somewhat “differ¬ 
ent.” Many a mother has held this thought 
about the erring girl only to wake up to the 
fact, too late, that her own little girl has slipped 
somewhere, out of range of mother’s complacent 
eye, and fallen. “And she was such a dear 
child,” the bewildered parent wails, “I don’t 
see how it ever happened!” 

Alas, she is not so very different, this erring 
girl. In the beginning she, too, was safe and 
secure, normal and sound in every respect. The 
trouble was that she arrived at two cross-roads 
somewhere along her journey, and in her ignor¬ 
ance chose the wrong path. 

Life is full of puzzles to the older and wiser 
heads; how could the girl just out of her child¬ 
hood (still scarcely more than a baby in the 
eyes of her fond parents), thrown into tempta¬ 
tions such as her elders know nothing about, 


168 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


choose between the road of the glaring lights, 
the thrilling sensations, the many pitfalls, and 
the road of the straight, brave, honest endeavor, 
drab and gray to the young, eager-searching 
eye, but with heights of achievement, and splen¬ 
did compensations for a life well and truly 
lived? 

Always there have been these two roads be¬ 
tween which to choose, but never before did the 
lights flare so brilliantly, the short-lived joys 
beckon so alluringly, to the wrong path, as they 
do today. The average girl needs more strength 
than her own, and the firm guidance of an older 
insight, to make the wise choice. Most of all, 
she NEEDS TO HAVE TEMPTATION RE¬ 
MOVED FROM HER PATH! 

A prominent woman writer in a widely-circu¬ 
lated household journal says, among other 
things—“We all know the stories—reckless 
speech, unchaperoned parties of the wildest 
freedom, smoking, the hip-pocket flask at after¬ 
noon and evening dances, the demand for in¬ 
cessant extravagant amusement, and the wear¬ 
ing of immodest dress—and distracted mothers 
write new ones in every mail; from Wichita 
and Sioux Falls, and Paris, Maine, and Gal¬ 
veston, Texas. There seems to be no end of the 
gasping and the shocks. And there seem to be 
no geographical limits to the contagion. . . . 

It was in a small western town that the story 
of the abandonment of stays at dances started, 
and it was from a Kentucky city that a woman 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 169 


wrote me that her son’s little group, ‘children 
of the nicest families in town’ called their danc¬ 
ing club ‘The Twin Beds Club.’ ” 

The matter in reality is wide-spread, and 
breaks out in the best of homes, as well as in 
the poorer and less protected kind. Rosa Evans, 
daughter of a poor Southern family, where 
there are so many children they have to sleep 
three in a bed, develops a sense of indepen¬ 
dence, and runs away to a city or a large town. 
Rosa is pretty, weak, and possesses only a lim¬ 
ited capacity for application. She is poorly 
paid, loves pretty clothes and admiration, and 
without the least knowledge of what she is get¬ 
ting into, and with no really bad motives in her 
foolish little breast, meets temptation, and falls. 
Disillusioned, bedraggled and miserable, she is 
picked up by the Juvenile Court, her parents are 
notified, and she is sent home in disgrace. 

There is nothing new or startling about a mor¬ 
bid story of this kind. It happens so often, and 
it is what might be expected of a daughter of 
“such people.” 

The beautiful daughter of a rich farmer 
makes her debut in society; an imposing pre¬ 
sentation ball is given; elegance and evidences 
of wealth and culture are everywhere. The girl 
is entering life as a young woman; soon she will 
meet the man of her choice, the son of one of 
the other best families; they will make a sensi¬ 
ble marriage, and will settle down to creating 
a high-class home, parents to well-born, well- 


170 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


bred children. At least, this is the logical out¬ 
come for this daughter of wealth and advan¬ 
tage. But what is society to think, when, the 
morning after her presentation ball, she is found 
miles away from home with a boy friend at a 
country hotel? 

Such things can’t happen among “nice peo¬ 
ple,” we once told ourselves. But this thing 
happened, and too many things like it are hap¬ 
pening for us to close our eyes and say, “But 
they are different; our kind do not act like 
that.” 

It is just this sad fact that we are deploring. 
“Our kind” are acting exactly like that. And 
it is to the mothers of “our kind” that I am send¬ 
ing this statement and this warning. They, and 
they alone, can save our young people. 

“Not all the charges against her are suitable 
for polite discussion,” says another writer in this 
discussion of the modern girl. “One of the 
lighter indictments is that she has made a 
mockery of her maiden countenance. She bobs 
her hair, picks her brows, powders excessively, 
rouges still more excessively, uses a ‘lip stick,’ 
and perfumes the palms of her hands. . . 

the girl’s mother also powders, paints and works 
the lip stick. ... Of course, the young girl 
should set her mother a better example, but 
since this is such a reversion of the relation be¬ 
tween mother and daughter, probably she has 
never realized that this was her duty. She has 
followed her mother’s example as usual.” 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 171 


It is true that the majority of mothers do not 
use either rouge or the lip-stick. But those who 
do not must suffer because of those who do. For 
instance, Ethel Turner’s mother would as soon 
wear knee frocks as paint her face, pull her eye¬ 
brows and rouge her lips. She firmly believes 
that the use of rouge is the dividing line be¬ 
tween feminine modesty and something else 
which she does not name even in the intimacy 
of her own mind. She truly belongs to the 
“nice people” who do not deal in such subjects. 

But Ethel’s dearest friend is the daughter of 
a woman of modern ideas, and one who thor¬ 
oughly believes in being up-and-doing. This 
mother darkens her thinning eyebrows, uses the 
lip-stick, and rouges her cheeks. Ethel is greatly 
impressed by this fact. When her own mother 
deplores her use of cosmetics she replies that 
“perfectly nice people do it. Even Mrs. Price 
does it, mother,” she argues, “and you can’t 
say that she is not as nice as anybody. She’s 
the leader in her club, and sings in the choir, 
and everything. But she does believe in being 
up-to-date. She says every woman should al¬ 
ways try to look her best.” 

“Well, she looks her worst, with her face all 
painted up like a wild Zulu,” the mother throws 
back in despair. She knows her protest is use¬ 
less. Mrs. Price, who is a mother and an ag¬ 
gressive woman in civic and social affairs, 
paints. Many mothers’ daughters in the neigh¬ 
borhood bolstered their first timid efforts in 


172 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 

the use of rouge with the fact that Mrs. Price, 
or Mrs. Jones, or Mrs. Smith used it. 

And what, after all, is the matter with rouge? 
Nothing, except that back of its use is a ten¬ 
dency to deception. A tendency consciously 
and continuously practiced. The rouged face 
presents itself to the public. “This is just ex¬ 
actly how pretty I am,” it says. And the con¬ 
stant user of cosmetics feels a sense of defeat 
if caught off guard at any time with only the 
natural skin to speak for itself. The desire for 
beauty is a natural and laudable one. But how 
about the soul back of the face that forever 
wears a mask? 

It is not a far step from rouge to knee skirts, 
from knee skirts to rolled stockings, from rolled 
stockings to cigarettes, from cigarettes to— 
well, there are any number of things, any one 
or all of which a young girl may choose. 
Among them are men, liquor, and “dope.” 

Not that every young woman who does any 
of the above may take to all of them. Far from 
it, for most of our young women to do one or 
more of them. But the first barrier down, each 
succeeding hurdle is easier to take. So it is a 
serious matter that a young girl begins to paint 
her face before she learns to read good books, 
to develop ambition for a useful career, or to 
dream the old dreams of a true love, romance, 
and a castle of her own. 

In other words, the perfectly callow girl- 
child is being pushed into dangerous ground 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 173 


when she is allowed to lose her mind in ma¬ 
terial things and physical appeal. This is the 
period when her mother’s interest should be 
most alert, and her wiser influence most con¬ 
tinuously exerted in behalf of her daughter. By 
nature the young girl, as one writer says, “is 
the most delicate, sensitive and modest being 
born into this world.” 

It must be kept within the mother’s power 
to see that this daughter retains this modesty 
and sensitiveness throughout the years of pu¬ 
berty, at least. This is the dangerous age of 
youth, and it is an age so easily within the 
mother’s grasp. What happens to the girl in 
these few years of adolescence will color more 
or less her entire future life. 


174 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


CHAPTER II 

THE END OF THE WRONG TRACK 

Not many weeks ago two young women were 
found on the water-front of one of our largest 
cities, evidently thrown out of an automobile as 
carelessly as one would throw out an old lap 
robe. The girls were both dead. They were 
both well dressed, in the thin, ultra fashionable 
style of the day. One of them had been alive 
when tossed from the car, as the scratched and 
bruised condition of her face showed that she 
had dragged herself along the cinder path in 
an effort to get somewhere. 

The newspapers carried pictures of the par¬ 
ents of these young girls. These parents were 
kindly, pleasant-faced, middle-aged folk, of a 
decidedly rural character. They were exactly 
like thousands of mothers and fathers who plod 
hopefully along, conscientiously doing their 
duty and building aircastles about the future of 
their children, their girls and boys, so rapidly 
growing to young manhood and womanhood. 
How little did these particular parents dream 
of the fate that was to befall their beloved 
daughters! What had they, the mothers and 
fathers, done to bring upon themselves the 
agony of loss, this awful shame and humilia¬ 
tion? Their little girls, flesh and blood of their 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 175 


flesh and blood, flung out to the elements like 
so much trash, to freeze and die alone? 

If the parents were in no wise to blame for 
this bitter chastisement, what had the girls 
done to bring it upon themselves and their 
fathers and mothers? 

What, indeed, had these girls done? The first 
step, it is easy to imagine, was self-indulgence. 
It is easy to trace the rising discontent with 
things as they were at home—the old-fashioned 
parents, the restrictions, imagined and other¬ 
wise, the poverty, the staleness and homeliness 
of everything—This sort of discontent is often 
translated into ambition by those suffering from 
it, and these girls, no doubt, thought they were 
imbued with a fine impulse to do things, to ac¬ 
complish something in the world, to rise above 
their immediate environment, to gain fame and 
all that. All the time they may have been 
wanting just to get away from tedious re¬ 
sponsibility, and merely to have a good time. 
But let us give them the credit for wanting to 
do something worth while; for having a real 
and legitimate ambition; and for persuading 
their parents that this was their object in going 
away from home. With tears in their eyes the 
hopeful, doting parents let them go. 

The girls went to New York City. They got 
into the chorus of some show. And evidently 
they never got any farther. Fame was a long 
way off, and the road to it was a hard one to 
travel. To become famous meant hard, unre- 


176 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


lenting work, and self-discipline. Most of all, 
it meant self-discipline. It meant turning one's 
face away from late parties, from joy-rides; 
from promiscuous attentions from any Tom, 
Dick and Harry who could spend a little money 
and “show one a good time." These girls were 
not equal to the task. It was the same thing 
they had at home—this work, and application, 
and self-discipline. They were free-born, mod¬ 
ern, American girls, and they were not going 
to be bound down anywhere, at anything. Am¬ 
bition was all right. They were ambitious. But 
one had to live her life, too. 

So they substituted plain self-indulgence for 
ambition. No doubt, they began in a small way, 
at first taking advantage of this opportunity 
and that, until at last all the self-restraint was 
gone, all the barriers were down, and no chance 
was too big to take, no risk too great, if it of¬ 
fered “a good time." They finally left the city 
they got their start in, drifted about with two 
young men to whom they were not married, 
lived “free," irresponsible lives, not true even to 
the men who were supporting them; it was with 
two strangers who had picked them up on the 
street that they had gone for that last “joy 
ride," which ended so disastrously for them. 

What these girls had done to reach this un¬ 
happy end, was, first of all, to lose their grip 
upon themselves. They let go of that something 
which is in every woman by nature, and to 
which every woman must cling with every atom 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 177 


of her being, if she is never to get out of the 
right track. There is only one right track. That 
lies straight in the vision of every girl who does 
not allow her brain to become clouded by think¬ 
ing too long upon the many wrong paths that 
present themselves; they come with greater per¬ 
sistency, the oftener and longer they are per¬ 
mitted to come, and linger in the mind. 

Too many times the victim of delusions does 
not realize that she actually is on the wrong 
track and going the pace that leads to inevitable 
ruin. But she knows—she always feels it— 
when she has taken the first wrong step or two. 
But she does not realize it when she actually 
steps out of the right path. Many girls, con¬ 
scious of having taken a wrong step, maybe it 
was just one little twisted step, read about the 
girls that were thrown out on the water front 
to die. But they shrugged their shoulders and 
said, “Well, I am not going that way. I am 
not on THAT track.” 

The Story of Jean. Jean’s story never got 
into the newspapers. But it was no less a 
tragedy because of that. The writer was living 
temporarily in a fashionable apartment house 
on Chicago’s North Side, occupying the front 
parlor and a bedroom. The large folding doors 
between the front and back parlors were closed 
and locked. Evidently someone was living in 
that third room. On two occasions I was 
wakened by a person or persons moving about 


178 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


in this adjoining room. It seemed very late, and 
I wondered about it, as one will drowsily, when 
wakened out of a deep sleep. The third night 
when the noise awoke me, I looked at the clock. 
It was four-thirty in the morning. Presently I 
heard a door open and close; someone went 
down the stairs, and the outer door opened and 
closed. 

Next day I asked a lady in the house with 
whom I had struck up a slight acquaintance, 
who it was that occupied the parlor back of me. 

“Oh, that is Jean K-,” she said. “She 

is a little actress who is taking a vacation here 
for a few weeks. A charming little girl. Haven’t 
you met her?” 

I said I hadn’t, but told her nothing about the 
waking moments I had endured because of 
Jean. A day or two later this woman intro¬ 
duced me to Jean, the actress. My first impulse 
was to take the girl in my arms as a father or 
mother would their child. I thought 1 had 
never seen a more magnetic and appealing 
beauty than was hers. She was small, with the 
plumpness of youth, her skin was clear olive, 
and her hair, which now hung in thick, lovely 
curls, was jet black. Her cheeks dimpled as 
she smiled, but there was not a trace of color in 
her clear skin. In fact, Jean informed me that 
she was ill. She had had an operation for ap¬ 
pendicitis, she said, and didn’t seem to recover 
from it very well. I knew afterward that her 
appeal to me was not one merely of a very 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 179 


pretty girl, but of a girl in great trouble, with no 
hope of aid from any quarter. 

I saw Jean for a fleeting moment the next 
day, and the third day I moved away. Less than 
a fortnight later I returned to this house on 
some business, and the lady whose acquaintance 
I had made there informed me that Jean was 
dead. 

“Dead?” I cried. “Jean—the little actress— 
dead?” It was made quite plain to me that she 
was dead, and then I was told her story, as it 
had come out bit by bit after her death. They 
always do come out, these poor, miserable little 
stories. 

Jean had been on the stage, probably in the 
chorus or in some minor part. She had come 
from a neighboring city, where she had left her 
parents and a young husband, who was very 
fond of her. Further than that no one knew 
about her past life. But there was a gentleman, 
a very wealthy youngish man, who, according 
to the landlady, had been very nice to Jean, 
giving her presents, flowers and candy, while 
she was taking her vacation. This man had 
been at the house to see Jean a good deal of 
late, and was with her when she was taken 
suddenly very ill. The doctor was called and 
said she must be taken to the hospital at once. 
This rich admirer was standing around, trying 
rather awkwardly to help, my informant said. 
Finally he asked the physician if there was any¬ 
thing he could do, at which the doctor glared at 


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180 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


him for a moment and then said: “No, you can’t 
do anything—Go and jump in the bathtub; 
maybe that will help you.” The doctor, no 
doubt, had seen his kind before. 

The truth of the matter was that poor little 
Jean, sixteen years old and married, had given 
herself up to the allurements of another man’s 
money and the good times she imagined it could 
bring her. She had paid the full price, had 
undergone an illegal operation, blood poison 
had set in, and she died in great agony after 
several days of suffering at the hospital. A 
notice of her death was put in several papers, 
her husband saw it, and came to claim the body. 

Jean made a false step; it was the step of 
self-indulgence. Her vision became blurred as 
she went on, the right path was lost, and the 
wrong one led to her death before she could be 
snatched away from it. 

What Will Become of Louise? Recently I 
was in the office of a very successful, big- 
hearted physician. There was a call over the 
telephone. After he had answered it and made 
an appointment, he said to me: “I want you to 
wait and see this girl who has just talked to 

me. Her name is Louise M-. Her parents 

own an apartment building on the West Side, 
for which they are asking $50,000. They have 
other property. Louise and a brother will in¬ 
herit all they have. Yet she insists upon work¬ 
ing in a department store on State Street. 




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“Louise came to me a week ago and said she 
was afraid there was something the matter with 
her. 'Suppose there is/ I answered her. 'That 
is fine. You and Ben will be happy over it/ 'No, 
no/ she cried. 'Ben and I haven’t been living 
together for six months. I am going to get a di¬ 
vorce. . . I have got to do something about 

this, doctor, if I am caught. 

“ 'Oh/ I answered her. 'And who is responsi¬ 
ble for this—providing there is something the 
matter?’ 'The boss of our department,’ she as¬ 
sured me. Well, I finally told her to come to 
me in another week, and in the meantime she 
might find it was a false alarm. She is coming 
now.” 

As Louise came in, under cover of getting on 
my gloves, and bidding good-bye to the doctor, 
I looked her over. I saw a youthful looking 
blonde, of the average type, well, but not con¬ 
spicuously dressed, and with nothing in her fea¬ 
tures to indicate that she was in any way ab¬ 
normal, or sub-normal. 

When I saw this physician again I asked: 

• i 

''Doctor, how old was that girl I saw up here 
the other day?” 

“How old?” he said. “Why, I think Louise 
is about eighteen.” And then he said: “I have 
asked Louise why she works. She doesn’t have 
to earn her living, and she doesn’t, of course. 
The money she makes in that department store 
is spent on frivolities—candy and shows, and 
such things. Her parents support her and buy 



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her clothes. But when I pressed her for an 
answer she said it was tiresome staying at home. 
She didn’t like to keep house either for her 
mother or for her husband. . . . They like 

the excitement of being out in the world, these 
little girls, and they often become so intoxicated 
with it that they lose their balance entirely. 
Now the boy, at least the average boy, has a 
place in the world of things which he takes 
seriously. Work means success or failure in 
life for him; it is the background for a family 
of his own, a home of his own, and of a re¬ 
spectable station in life. But the young girl, 
the average modern girl, I am afraid, makes a 
plaything of what she calls ‘earning her living.’ 
She demoralizes herself and those about her. 

“I told you, I think,” he continued, after a 
thoughtful pause, “that Louise thought she had 
got herself in trouble. She told me about it as 
nonchalantly as you might tell me about a 
headache. No blush, no hesitation, no shame 
registered on her face. When she found that 
she was safe, there was, of course, a feeling of 
relief; but, she informed me that I could get all 
I could do, if I would take cases such as she had 
feared hers was, among the girls in her section 
of the store. ‘Doctor,’ she said, ‘there are lots 
of girls in the store who would come to you if 
you would take care of them.’ ‘Nothing doing 
in that line,’ I assured her. ‘Tell these girls to 
behave themselves and they won’t need a phy¬ 
sician’s care.’ ” 


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“If this girl, at eighteen, has so lost her 
womanhood, what will her children be like, 
providing she has any?” I asked this physician. 
He threw up his hands. “I don’t even think 
about it,” he replied. “But I do know,” he con¬ 
tinued, “if something isn’t done about it pretty 
soon there won’t be any more generations. The 
modern girl has got to be taken hold of and put 
on the right track some way. ... It looks 
to me like it is up to the mothers.” 

We have been saying in the past that poverty 
caused the downfall of our girls; that and the 
White Slave Traffic. And formerly it was true. 
But we have just passed through the richest era 
this nation has ever known. Enormous salaries 
were paid even to incompetents. Girls wore 
silk stockings and silk lingerie with all the com¬ 
fort of princesses and millionaires. They very 
apparently did not need to sell themselves for 
food, nor for the comforts of life. It is self- 
evident, however, that too many girls gave 
themselves up to sensational and depraved 
pleasures without the spur of necessity, or the 
whip of want which formerly drove them on to 
desperate measures. 

What of Ruth? I met her first in the adver¬ 
tising department of a large publication. She 
was slender and pale, with the soft roundness 
of youth, and a mere suggestion of rose pink in 
her cheeks. One had the impression that she 
had at one time been more robust, with plenty 


184 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of color. Her marcelled hair was always 
combed neatly back from a low, well-shaped 
forehead, and confined in a soft knot at the 
nape of her neck. Her eyes were clear and 
blue, and there was an inquiring, almost child¬ 
like expression in them. I admired her very 
much, though for some time I saw her only at 
a distance, and had not talked with her at all. 

One day she stepped into my office, told me 

her name was Ruth L-, and talked about 

books. She read the popular books, yes. But 
only for passing amusement. She also read, 
and preferred, the intellectual things, books on 
sociology, science, and history. She appealed 
to me as an unusual office girl, and one of gen¬ 
tility and refinement. 

On leaving the building one evening Ruth 
caught up with me. She had been walking 
rapidly, and was a little out of breath. This 
exercise had brought the rose tint a little 
stronger in her cheeks and she looked very 
pretty, especially as her eyes were shining with 
something akin to excitement. “I have two 
gentlemen friends, both of whom always want 
to take me home in their cars,” she said, as we 
walked along. “One of them is younger than 
the other, and would meet me right here at the 
door of the building. . . . You would think 

I would prefer to go with him, wouldn’t you? 
But I prefer to go with the other one, though 
I have to walk six blocks to the garage where 
he parks his car. Now, isn’t that just human 



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nature?” she laughed. I smiled back at her, 
as I knew no more about the matter than she 
had told me, and it did seem possible that her 
preference was a bit of real contrary human 
nature—preferring the more inconvenient 
things. 

Another time, Ruth was in my office talking 
about herself as girls will. “I never wore 
winter underwear before,” she said. “But the 
doctor has ordered it, and I am at his mercy. 
I don't know that I am any better off than I 
was when I dressed as foolishly as other 
girls do.” 

“Have you been ill?” I asked her. She re¬ 
plied that she had and I said, “But you see, if 
you had protected yourself with sufficient 
clothing before, perhaps you would never have 
been sick.” 

“Oh, no—it wasn't that,” she replied quickly. 
“I didn’t get sick from cold. I—I had a nervous 
breakdown, and was in the hospital. Oh, you 
should have seen me before that. I am a mere 
shadow of what I was before that.” She said 
very little more, and left. 

A co-worker who had overheard Ruth's con¬ 
versation told me her story after she had gone. 
Hadn't I seen, she asked, a certain man, promi¬ 
nent in the advertising fraternity, coming into 
the place frequently, almost every day, in fact, 
and spending considerable time in the office in 
which Ruth worked? I replied that I was not 
much of a hand at “seeing things,” and I had 



186 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


not noticed this especial performance; if I had 
I would have thought the man was there on 
business. I would never have connected his 
visits with this genteel looking girl. 

Well, everyone knew about it. In fact, it 
was generally conceded that Ruth held her posi¬ 
tion with this particular firm through this man’s 
influence. Most of the time when he came in 
Ruth’s boss walked out, and the two had a nice 
little half hour or so for a chat. Ruth’s stay in 
the hospital had not been caused by a nervous 
breakdown. It was caused by the same thing 
that sent Jean, the little French actress, to an 
untimely grave. Ruth had not died, but by her 
own admission she had lost much of a once 
robust health, and had been “doomed to winter 
underwear” by her physician. 

Naturally one takes gossip “with a grain of 
salt”—if one is wise. I try to be as wise as my 
nature will permit me to be. So I took this 
gossip about Ruth and the advertising gentle¬ 
man with the proverbial “grain.” I hoped it 
was not altogether true, to say the least. I 
never watched to see the gentleman referred to 
walk into her office. But upon another occa¬ 
sion Ruth passed me as I was leaving the build¬ 
ing again. This time she was too hurried to 

stop. “I am to meet Mr. B- at the garage 

in three minutes,” she said, “and must hurry.” 

Thus by her own admission did I know that 
the story I had heard was true. I left this 
place a little later. It was probably six months 



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before I saw Ruth again. It was on the street. 
Her soft brown hair had been dyed a deep red, 
and there was more color on her cheeks than 
the paleness of her skin warranted. I wondered 

if Mr. B-, the middle aged head of a family, 

had tired of the pale little girl whose health he 
had stolen, that she should color herself up so 
generously. 

It was too bad about Ruth. She possessed 
fine possibilities. I believe she would have 
made an intelligent citizen and a splendid 
mother. But she got on the wrong track—one 
that makes neither for good citizens nor good 
motherhood. 

Poor Annie D- . One of the cases that has 

seemed to me a little worse than many others, 

was that of Annie D-. One day a man and 

a woman applied for rooms in a small, but re¬ 
spectable family hotel. They introduced them¬ 
selves as Mr. and Mrs. W-. Mrs. W- 

attracted attention because of her good looks, 
chic appearance, and kindly, courteous manner 

towards everyone. Mr. W- was friendly, 

but small of stature, weazened, and though 
expensively dressed, was evidently of low 
culture. 

It soon became apparent to the guests of the 

hotel that Mr. W-was a steady, though not 

obtrusive drinker. As time passed, Mrs. W. 
gave signs of following in her husband’s foot¬ 
steps. She sometimes appeared in a slightly 









188 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


dazed condition, expressing herself with hesi¬ 
tation, and laughing easily, in a silly fashion 
not her own when in a normal condition. There 
came times when she stayed away from meals. 

Finally, one night, the guests on either side 
of the rooms occupied by the W.’s were 
awakened by what seemed a rather ferocious 
combat between this strange couple. Nothing 
was said about it; next morning, however, Mrs. 
W. did not appear at breakfast nor at lunch, 
and Mr. W. hurried away to his business. 
When Mrs. W. came down to dinner, there was 
a slight bruise under her right eye, and her lip 
appeared swollen. She complained of a cold, 
and seemed otherwise in good spirits. So the 
matter passed off. 

It was the last year of the war, and one of 
Mrs. W.’s chief topics of conversation was of 
her son at the front. Evidently she was very 
proud of this son. She got wonderful news 
from him. Once the report came—so she said— 
that he had been wounded at the front, and she 
was in tears all day. The guests wondered if 
she had taken to drink because of the worry 
over having her boy in the war. They came to 
pity, rather than to condemn her. 

What turned out to be drunken quarrels, 
occurred with greater frequency, as the couple 
felt their security at the hotel. The woman 
finally appeared with a bruised face, and com¬ 
plaint was made to the management. They 
were asked to leave. Mr. W. disappeared, but 


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Mrs. W. remained a few days, as she was too 
ill to leave her bed. 

At this time a new man came upon the scene. 
He was introduced by Mrs. W. as her son. He 
was a well-built, youthful looking blonde, of 
evident culture and intelligence. That he ap¬ 
peared to be too old for Mrs. W.’s son, however, 
was noted, and attributed to the fact of hard¬ 
ship borne during the war. Of course, the 
truth had to come out very shortly, and within 
a week everyone knew that the son Mrs. W. had 
talked so much about was, in reality, her hus¬ 
band, Charles D. Mr. D. stayed at the hotel 
with his wife, until she was strong enough to 
leave with him. He was a straightforward, 
honest fellow, and talked frankly with the hotel 
keeper about the situation. 

“I supposed,” he said, “that my wife was 
living with her sister, as that is where I left her, 
when my company was ordered south. I have 
been sending my letters to her there, and she 
was always giving me that address in writing 
to me. I went to her sister's home when I re¬ 
turned from the army, and was told that she 
had been living here. I did not know until I 
came here that she had been living with that 
man.” The hotel keeper asked him if he in¬ 
tended taking his wife away with him, to which 
the distressed husband answered: “Yes, I will 
take my wife with me, and keep her with me, 
if I can. There is nothing else to do. She is 


190 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


broken in health and her nerves are shattered. 
There is no one to take care of her but myself.” 

The loyalty of this husband was wonderful. 
He despised the depths to which his wife had 
fallen, yet she was his wife, and he would not 
forsake her. The man with whom she had been 
living was a bartender, with a very small in¬ 
come. They had been using the husband’s 
army pay, as he conscientiously sent it to her 
each month. She also had an income of her 
own. The beatings she had been getting when 
Mr. W. got drunk and ugly, were telling on her 
health. Her husband could not leave her to 
such cruelty. 

And this woman, Annie D., had learned to 
drink in her mother’s home. “They always had 
liquors on the sideboard, and were a very hos¬ 
pitable family,” the husband had explained. 
“It was then, I am sure, that the habit got hold 
of her. Mr. W. could furnish all the drink she 
wanted, and from what she tells me, she has 
taken an awful lot of it.” 

They left the hotel, the husband and wife, 
together. He took back his old position in a 
broker’s office and was earning a fair salary. 
They left with the best wishes and the sym¬ 
pathy of the people in the hotel. Everyone 
wanted to see the woman return to her former, 
better self, for her own sake and that of her 
husband. 

Three weeks later, about nine o’clock one 
morning, while passing a questionable district 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 191 


on North Clark Street, near the river, I saw a 
man and woman come out of a hallway leading 
to rooms above a restaurant. They carried a 
small black leather bag. It was Annie D. and 
Mr. W. 


192 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


CHAPTER III 

JAZZ AND SHIMMY 

Jazz and Shimmy Worst Foe to High Stan¬ 
dards for Youth. What has been the stimulus 
back of the pace at which our young people 
have been going for several years past? Prob¬ 
ably no other element has been so much to 
blame as the modern music known as “Jazz,” 
and the modern dances known as the “Shimmy” 
and its kindred types. 

The following from the report of the Illinois 
Vigilance Association, which has been conduct¬ 
ing a crusade through the Morals Court, against 
the forms of music and dancing which are 
charged with the downfall of hundreds of girls, 
tells in language pungent and expressive of its 
findings. 

Fall of 1,000 girls charged to jazz music. 

“That the weird, neurotic, sex stimulating 
strains of so-called jazz music result in a 
‘feeble-minded morality’ is indicated in a study 
recently completed by the Illinois Vigilance As¬ 
sociation of unfortunate girls brought into the 
Morals Court. 

1,000 Cases Investigated. “The association’s 
representatives have dealt with more than 1,000 
of these cases in the last two years. Temporary 
shelter and aid were given girls in many in¬ 
stances and help provided for their return to 
normal life. Less than 3 per cent of the girls 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 193 


thus befriended ever reappeared in the court. 
Implicit in their pathetic histories lie vivid pic¬ 
tures of conditions in Chicago that cause crime 
and develop disease and degeneracy. 

“The demoralizing part played by jazz music 
and dancing in the experience of these girls 
was repeatedly portrayed in their pitiful stories. 

“In practcially all the cases where they were 
not already hardened prostitutes it was found 
to have been a potent factor in their downfall. 

Cites Typical Case. “The sad history of one 
girl recently brought into court is typical of 
many others. She was born in Chicago of good 
parents who exhausted every resource in her 
behalf. Although but 18 years old when 
brought into court, she had been frequenting 
jazz dances for over three years. 

“Beginning when less than 15 years of age 
in the more expensive dance palaces of the 
north side she gradually drifted down to 
rougher ones on the west side. The same type 
of music was played in all the halls. v 

“This sex infuriating music, combined with 
other conditions, led to her first indiscretion. 
This was followed by a life of promiscuity, the 
act often taking place in the halls and corridors 
of the building in which the dance was held. 

“She finally met a man at a certain hall, ran 
away with him, and was subsequently deserted. 
When arrested she was living in a disorderly 
flat with Negroes. The association’s officer be¬ 
came interested in her story, befriended her, 
and later was able to restore her to her home 
and parents. 

Girls Ruined at Dances. “This girl’s expe¬ 
rience has been duplicated hundreds of times 
with results even more tragic. The woman of- 


194 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


ficer of the Illinois Vigilance Association has 
cared for over 150 illegitimacy cases where, ac¬ 
cording to statements of the victims themselves, 
conception took place on stairways and in corri¬ 
dors in jazz dance halls. In one instance a cer¬ 
tain girl was insulted over forty times during 
the course of one evening! 

“With many of these unfortunate young peo¬ 
ple the dance described above marks simply 
the beginning of their career. To observe the 
final fruits of the “jazz music route,” one must 
visit a big dance floor in the Second ward. Here 
investigators for the Vigilance Association 
found the logical culmination of so-called 
‘modern’ music. 

“Mid the distracting notes of the saxophone 
and the weird beat of the tom-tom was wit¬ 
nessed conduct not hitherto seen outside the old 
red light district. 

“In full view of the audience, which included 
many boys and girls apparently still in their 
teens, couples on the floor gave way to almost 
every form of indecency. Dancers violently 
threw their arms about each other, frequently 
assuming immoral postures. 

“Lights were lowered, and to the strains of 
syncopated music actions that are indescribable 
took place. This is the full flowering—the 
fruition of modern erotic music, which has so 
crazed and befuddled the moral make-up of 
young people. 

Rouse Public Conscience. “The Illinois Vig¬ 
ilance Association seeks to awaken the public 
conscience to the present danger and future 
consequences of this pathological form of en¬ 
tertainment, but has no desire to abolish danc¬ 
ing. It does not believe in puritanical restric¬ 
tions, but in decency. 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 195 


“The dance and music described are common, 
not only alone to disorderly places but often to 
high school affairs, to expensive hotels, and to 
so-called society circles. 

“Parents, churches and schools should know 
the manner in which their young people are 
dancing. They should learn from the expe¬ 
rience of hundreds of girls that moral disaster, 
disease, and degeneracy often lie in the wake 
of this sort of recreation. And having learned 
these things, they should enlist in the move¬ 
ment for wholesome, not abnormal, music, for 
clean dancing and for conditions in dance halls 
that shall be constructive instead of degrading.” 

Bares Evil in Dances, Auto Rides. That the 
High Schools have become infested with the 
moral sub-normality all too prevalent, has been 
the complaint of parents for some time past. 
An appeal to parents to save high school girls 
and boys from the effects of jazz music, shimmy 
dances, joy riding and immodest dressing, was 
given to the Board of Education in Chicago re¬ 
cently by Superintendent Peter A. Mortenson. 
The appeal was prepared as a result of con¬ 
ferences attended by high school principals and 
deans, and bears their endorsement. 

Text of Report. Following is the text of Mr. 
Mortenson’s report to the school board: 

“To the board of education: The superin¬ 
tendent of schools reports that, in conference 
with the deans and principals of high schools, a 
statement of general principles has been 
evolved. The greatest force for good in the 
school, is the sentiment and public opinion of 


196 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


the main student body; it is believed that these 
young people and their parents will co-operate 
with the board of education in setting stan¬ 
dards, and in restraining the less responsible. 
The superintendent suggests the following state¬ 
ment of general principles: 

“We believe the modern method of dancing 
has done much to break down respect for 
womanhood. 

“We feel that no effort on our part can 
counteract this evil unless the parents realize 
the danger and help us maintain the standards. 

Flay Jazz Music. “We believe that jazz 
music has done much to corrupt dancing and to 
make it impossible for young people to learn the 
more refined forms of dancing, at the same time 
vitiating their taste for good music. 

“It is the intention of the board of education 
and its officers that all dances given by the 
pupils of any high school shall be conducted 
within the high school building if possible. 
When this is not possible the affair is to be so 
advertised that parents can make no mistake as 
to the responsibility and chaperonage of the 
school. The superintendent asks that parents 
assure themselves that a dance so organized and 
conducted be not confused with a dance patron¬ 
ized by high school pupils, but not authorized 
by the school. 

“We believe that the unrestricted use of the 
automobile is another demoralizing influence, 
and that parents who allow boys in their teens 
to take high school girls joy riding are doing 
much to break down the moral standards of the 
community. 

“We believe that in accordance with the state 
law, pupils should refrain from smoking. 

“Extremes in dress are deplorable. We be- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 197 


lieve that mothers should know that modesty 
and simplicity in high school girls’ costumes are 
most helpful and uplifting to the school ideals. 

Favor Early Hours. “We believe that young 
people of high school age should keep early 
hours and devote five evenings of the week to 
their high school studies. 

“We believe that parents should be invited to 
share in the patronage and chaperonage of all 
school functions. 

“Inasmuch as our greatest concern is to pre¬ 
serve the wholesome elements in the characters 
of our young people, and to insure a develop¬ 
ment into a strong manhood and womanhood, 
with a will to combat evil, the superintendent 
feels that he has a right to the active support 
of the parents in these matters of standards 
and ideals. 

“The superintendent recommends concurrence 
in this report, and that authority be granted to 
print 45,000 copies of the same for distribution 
to high school students and their parents; also 
500 posters of the same, to be placed in high 
school gymnasiums and other prominent places 
about the school. 

“PETER A. MORTENSON, 
“Superintendent of Schols.” 

The Chicago Daily Journal comments on this 
report as follows: 

“For two years principals and teachers have 
been studying the complaints that the present- 
day school boy and girl are deteriorating mor¬ 
ally. They have tried all sorts of expedients, 
school dances, community centers and socials, to 
check the students’ increasing tendency toward 
worldliness. But they have decided that the 


198 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


cause for most of the trouble lies within the 
home. 

Say Parents Are Slack. “Mothers and 
fathers are slackening on their paternal duties, 
school officials declare. They are trying to 
shove the moral responsibility for their young 
onto the teachers’ shoulders. They assume that 
it is the duty of the school to safeguard their 
students during all the hours they spend outside 
their homes, and are forgetting that the au¬ 
thority of the principals and teachers ceases 
when the pupils leave school property. 

“Within the last month two boys, members 
of prominent families, have been charged with 
maintaining an apartment in the fashionable 
Edgewater residential district, where they and 
their friends took young girl students following 
prolonged joy rides in their parents’ machines 
and after dances. 

“Similar'conditions are said to exist in other 
parts of the city. During the last year three 
apartments in a choice south-side section have 
been closed by the police following the dis¬ 
covery that they were supported by former high 
school boys and served as a home for certain 
girls. 

Close Poolrooms. “Many ice cream parlors 
and poolrooms catering exclusively to high 
school trade have been closed recently on orders 
from the chief of police’s office. 

“A poolroom close by a school had its license 
revoked recently. Investigators found that the 
place served as a go-between between the boy 
and girl students. Boys desiring a “date” with 
high school girls registered their desires with 
the proprietor of the parlor, who, in turn, filled 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 199 


them through the activity of a couple of the 
boy students in his employ. 

Editorial Comment on Report. In comment¬ 
ing on the report of the Vigilance Association, 
an editorial writer in the Chicago Tribune puts 
the matter of saving the children of the Nation 
up to the parents. The writer says: 

The Jazz Road to Ruin. “The Illinois Vigi¬ 
lance Association, through its superintendent, 
the Rev. Phillip Yarrow, has issued a prelim¬ 
inary report on immorality in Chicago, in which 
it attributes the downfall of 1,000 girls to the 
evil influence of jazz music and improper danc¬ 
ing which it encourages. The association pur¬ 
poses a crusade through the Morals Court 
against such music and dancing. 

“There is something in what the association 
says, but not everything. We have no doubt 
that jazz music in unrestricted environment 
tends to stimulate improper dancing and 
thereby quickens the steps of its devotees 
toward downfall. To that extent it is evil and 
may properly be discouraged. 

“But in the report of the association there is 
again evident the now common tendency to 
bring about moral reform by statute rather than 
by a quickening of the moral sense through pre¬ 
cept and example. The report devotes hun¬ 
dreds of words to depicting the terrible ruin 
wrought by jazz, and is satisfied with a para¬ 
graph suggesting that parents, churches, and 
schools learn of the evil and act against it. Not 
a line in the report before us emphasizes the 
need of parents teaching their children the ad¬ 
vantages of morality and high character in 
themselves. In the final accounting the re- 


200 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


sponsibility does lie with the parents. If they 
teach their children good morals and clean liv¬ 
ing, and provide them with clean interests and 
recreations, the jazz dance hall will not lure 
them to ruin and eventually will die of inanition. 

“But the Vigilance Association overlooks this 
point in its eagerness for reform by force. It is 
easier and more spectacular to attack something 
against which a prohibitory law may be asked 
than to attack lazy, indifferent, and incapable 
parents in their homes. 

“Perhaps the association is right. Perhaps 
eventually, with the aid of Dr. Crafts and other 
associates, it will be able to remove all evil and 
all temptation from the world by law. Then no 
one can go to ruin, whether child or adult. There 
will be no need even for parents, except to pro¬ 
duce children. Parental instruction and home 
life can be eliminated except for the entertain¬ 
ment they afford, because no moral principles 
will be necessary in a world in which no wrong 
can be done. 

“In the meantime it is our guess that parents 
can do more to keep their children decent than 
all the laws ever conceived by man and re¬ 
former.” 

“A small town in the mountains of Arkansas 
did not know what the ultra dance was until the 
daughter of a local minister came home from 
college and with a young college boy as partner 
demonstrated it at a summer hotel. The people 
were horrified. It will take a lot of preaching 
by that clergyman to counteract the effect of 
his daughter’s conduct.” 

The upshot of it, no doubt, has been that the 
youngsters, where they have met with opposi¬ 
tion from home folks, have gone away to other 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 201 


centers to do their dancing. In this way they 
carried the evil with them, spreading it abroad. 
Quoting again from this report: 

“At Marshalltown, Iowa, a town of fifteen 
thousand inhabitants, a country club was organ¬ 
ized last spring and some nice dances were held. 
It was a great success until the young people 
came home from college and introduced the 
jazz, which utterly shocked the elders and re¬ 
sulted in breaking up the club.” 

But did it stop the young people from danc¬ 
ing? Again from a small center most likely 
spread the virus of this ultra-fashionable Afro- 
American dance. 

“There are many fly-by-night dancing places 
in the rural districts. They are generally 
vicious. It does not take long for the reputation 
of the latest-established place to spread far and 
wide, and for patrons to arrive from long dis¬ 
tances by means of the automobile. Some of 
these disreputable resorts are found in decent 
little communities that hardly realize they are 
affected until there is a local epidemic of 
immorality.” 

“The barn dance, which used to be an inno¬ 
cent rural festival, has become largely a com¬ 
mercial and vicious enterprise. A barn is 
rented by someone for a few dollars. The pat¬ 
ronage is not only for the farming community, 
but from the small towns around, and there is 

absolutely no supervision. At -, Illinois, 

a barn dance has been run for the past five 
years with trimmings of indecency, fighting and 
drunkenness. H-, Illinois, reports two un- 




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savory places, one a platform dance, and the 
other a barn dance.” 

These dances are in or near small towns. It 
is not impossible for the mothers of these towns 
to organize a supervision over these places. If 
parents cannot follow their children to these 
amusement places, they at least can discover 
where they are, and through their clubs, 
churches, or other organizations, see that a 
committee of women are elected to act as dance 
chaperons, keeping order and decency among 
the dancers. 

It is a fact that city dance halls are more 
nearly supervised than these haphazard, fly-by- 
night country places. But that is because the 
rural parent has hardly felt the need of such 
supervision. Statistics show now, however, that 
such need is urgent. Once recognized and put 
into practice, a long step will have been taken 
toward controlling the young people, and driv¬ 
ing out the obnoxious elements in the new 
dances. 

The report quoted from above says: 

“One point in connection with the reform of 
dancing is the need of supervision during the 
intermission, as well as upon the floor. When 
the music stops the boys often take liberties 
with their partners, and the latter seem to be 
utterly unconscious of the fact that this is 
wrong. This gives an idea of the demoralizing 
effect of the jazz. It is perhaps logical for 
young people to think that as liberties are per¬ 
missible in the dance, they ought to be permis- 


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sible afterwards. A woman chaperon should 
always be provided, for girls will not make com¬ 
plaint of impropriety to a man.” 

Campaigns have and are being started 
through the Social Hygiene Board working in 
part through the Federation of Woman’s Clubs, 
through the organized dancing profession, and 
also by enlarging the scope of the public wel¬ 
fare department of the various states. 

Young people must have recreation. That is 
a recognized fact. To try to prevent this is like 
trying to close a bird’s mouth, or keep the but¬ 
terflies from disporting themselves in the sun. 
But parents can see to it that they have clean 
amusement. In the last analysis it is up to the 
mothers of the nation. They are the guardians 
of their children’s morals, and are responsible 
whether these morals are corrupted at home or 
abroad. 

“Why are rural women, the guardians of 
American purity, apparently so complacent in 
regard to the modern dance?” has been asked. 
And the answer has come: 

“Simply because they do not accompany 
their girls and boys to, through and from these 
dances. They do not know. They assume that 
things are as they used to be, and implicitly 
trust their children, rather than heed the out¬ 
sider. . . . The average parent feels that 

her son or daughter is maligned by any sugges¬ 
tion of peril, and that the first duty of the 
parent is to trust the child. This condition and 


204 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


the tragedy it is bringing to the children are 
not due to any lowering of the standards of the 
rural mothers, but come through the lack of 
accurate information as to what their children 
are really facing and experiencing.” 

“Are women deficient in sex solidarity?” 

“Yes, generally speaking. They do not stand 
by the girls who are somebody else’s daughters. 
Men who ‘pick up’ girls complacently ignore the 
presence of mature women, and generally with¬ 
out interference.” 

The above Interview was with a field repre¬ 
sentative of a national welfare organization, 
which made a study of recreations in the small 
towns of the Central States. She discovered 
that jazz music acts exactly like a drug on cer¬ 
tain nerve centers. Women of mature judg¬ 
ment could not fail to realize the danger to their 
daughters in frequenting dance halls where this 
music is constantly played. 

At the Board of Sunday Schools of the 
Methodist Church, which met not long ago in 
Chicago the Rev. Warren T. Powell said: 

“If you want the young people to give up 
dancing, train them in outdoor sports and in¬ 
door athletics. It is my job to train the young 
men who are studying for the ministry at 
Gattett Biblical Institute in all these forms of 
exercise and amusement, even including indoor 
boxing. 

“When these young men get ministries they 
will advocate the sports among their church 
members, and thus will gradually spread a 
more healthy tone through society.” 


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It is the mother, the church, the woman’s 
clubs, and all organizations of a high moral 
tone, that must stop the nation’s little children 
from ruining themselves and the future of the 
race. There is no other solution. No other 
way will be found. 

This movement is on foot now, but it will have 
to travel fast and vigorously, for the children, 
the boys and girls, have had the lead for a long 
time, and are dancing fast and furiously on the 
brink of the abyss of physical and moral degra¬ 
dation. The mothers and the organizations of 
safety must increase their momentum day by 
day, to save the nation, their neighborhood, 
their children and themselves! 


206 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


CHAPTER IV 

OUR GIRLS AND THE DRUG HABIT 

The most pitiable disaster that can befall a 
young woman is the drug habit. From the 
New York State Drug Narcotic Control Com¬ 
mission it is learned that thousands of women 
addicts seek help, not because they are ragged 
or hungry, but because they have become vic¬ 
tims of a cruel habit, the habit of taking some 
form of narcotic. 

It is estimated that there are between 
2,000,000 and 4,000,000 drug addicts in the 
United States. The situation is appalling even 
at the lowest figure, which is two per cent of 
the adult population. It was forty years ago 
that the first opium pipe was smoked by a 
white man in this country. Today the per 
capita consumption of narcotics in the United 
States is from 13 to 72 times as great as that in 
other countries. 

The following table, prepared by the Depart¬ 
ment of Health, New York City, tells a story 
that should cause the sober-minded of this 
nation to take stock of themselves with the view 
to removing the burden of a tenacious menace 
from the shoulders of the present generation. 


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Table showing drugs used in various nations: 


Country 

Austria. 

Italy. 

Germany . . . 
Portugal .... 

France . 

Holland .... 
United States 


Consumption Per 
Capita Grains 

.... % 

. . . . 1 

. . . . 2 
.... 21/2 
. . . . 3 
.... 3% 

. . ..36 


Not only is this country ruining itself with 
this insidious habit, but in one period of five 
months there were shipped from one port of 
the United States of America to the Far East, 
narcotics enough to give one dose each to the 
400,000,000 inhabitants of all China. 

Medically considered, it is thought that any¬ 
one taking repeatedly a drug from a period of 
from three to five weeks is in great danger of 
becoming an addict. When the habit is estab¬ 
lished it is usually impossible for the victim to 
discontinue the use of the drug without outside 
assistance. 

With this stern fact in mind, it is easily 
understood why young women who attend 
“snow” (cocaine) parties, who frequent opium 
joints, or inhale morphine in exclusive studio 
gatherings, are in great danger, and do not 
know it. What starts as a lark, too often ends 
in the grimmest of tragedies. Association with 
addicts is particularly dangerous, for the addict 
takes a peculiar delight in initiating others into 
the habit. 









208 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Mr. Dana Hubbard, writing in Some Fallacies 
Regarding Narcotic Drug Addiction says: “Bad 
associates and evil environment is the chief 
cause of addiction among youthful habitues in 
New York.” 

Illegitimate traffic is known to have increased 
enormously in recent years, and is a serious 
menace at the present time. It is through this 
channel that most addicts receive their supply 
of narcotic drugs. It has been estimated that 
about 90 per cent of the opium and cocaine 
entered for consumption is used for other than 
medical purposes. 

Whom to Avoid. The young girl who does 
not want to fall into ruinous habits of any kind, 
and especially that of the drug addict should 
avoid the companionship of young men who 
have no regular employment, but who seem to 
hang around corner drug stores, pool rooms, 
and such places. A drug addict seldom can 
work steadily at anything. If he makes money 
he picks it up at odd jobs of employment here 
and there, often in ways not legitimate. Such 
a young man is always to be avoided. His in¬ 
fluence is invariably bad. The girl who dances 
a great deal at night, who specializes in late 
parties and joy rides, also is an undesirable 
companion. She is usually dilatory about her 
work, “easy” in her language, over-sophisti¬ 
cated, and frequently drinks or takes “dope.” 

The Story of Florence Burns. The following 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 209 


from the New York Journal (February 21, 
1921) is but one of too many such cases in the 
lives of our modern young people: 

“I would kill to get money for drugs. For 
God’s sake, help me,” the girl said to Dr. Simon. 

The girl, who gave the fictitious name of 
“Florence Burns,” told him she was a high 
school graduate and came from a good family, 
for whose protection she had adopted an alias. 
The Deputy Commissioner arranged for her 
treatment by a physician friend. 

She told Dr. Simon she had been on the stage 
until she became a wreck through drugs. The 
girl went to the East Fifty-fifth Street Police 
Station, and begged to be sent away to be cured 
of the drug habit. Dr. Simon was notified and 
took personal charge of the case. In her story 
to Dr. Simon at his office she said: 

“Drug peddlers dare not deal with new cus¬ 
tomers and are suspicious of old ones. Many 
sellers are fleeing the city through fear of 
arrest. The big vendors are out of business. 

“I have tried several hospitals but could not 
get treatment. I thought of committing a crime 
so I could be given treatment under the law that 
allows a Magistrate to commit an addict to an 
institution. 

“But I could not do that. I have sunk low, 
but I rebelled at the thought of becoming a 
criminal.” 

With a face distorted with hate the girl ex¬ 
coriated the drug vendors who thrive on the 
misfortunes of the addict. She said: 

“They were everywhere. The ring had its 
agents at dance halls and other amusement 
places. They invite the foolish to take a few 
flakes—‘to make you feel good.’ A girl friend 


210 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of mine gave me some cocaine eight months ago 
when I was suffering from toothache. I could 
not break the habit. 

“I spent $10.00 daily for drugs. I had to 
have them. But I am not the most pitiable case. 
Little children on the East Side have been 
ruined, body and soul, and turned into thieves 
by these inhuman monsters. 

“Girls who become addicts seem to take a 
fiendish delight in causing their closest friends 
to form the habit.” 

Dr. Simon declared that the stoppage of drug 
sales by street vendors will force addicts to 
apply to the city for relief. 

Miss Leola Allard, writing in the Chicago 
Examiner of January 26, 1922, gives the follow¬ 
ing account of another young woman who fell 
under the spell of the narcotic habit: 

Wellesley Girl Forges Checks to Buy Drugs. 

Four years ago Miss Dorothy Wilson was gradu¬ 
ated from Wellesley College and got a $40,000 
inheritance from her father. This morning she 
will be brought before Judge Kersten on the 
charge of forging checks for $500 on State 
Street Department Stores to buy drugs. 

“I am offered a position of assistant teacher 
of English in a Kansas town—not a big school, 
but a very good one. But you can imagine what 
a chance I would have, if they knew I had been 
in jail four months recovering from the deadly 
effects of cocaine and morphine.” 

“Dope” is Expensive. “I don’t know whether 
or not my guardian, who is president of a bank 
in Kansas,” she continued, “will help me. More 
than likely he will not. After the way I went 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 211 


through my inheritance I wouldn’t blame him 
much if he didn’t help. You know it costs from 
$15 to $30 a day to satisfy the craving after 
one is really addicted to the drugs. 

“I often wonder why they don’t let the ad¬ 
dicts alone, poor devils, and get these peddlers. 
They live by our misfortune. They got all I 
had, and I even sold my home in Oak Park to 
buy drugs. I sold my car, sold my jewelry, or 
pawned it, and now I haven’t even a shred of 
reputation. 

“When I got my money I went to Kansas City 
and decided to take a course in nursing. After 
an operation for appendicitis, I suffered much 
and one of the internes who liked me gave me 
all the morphine I wanted. 

Married and Divorced. “They soon dis¬ 
charged me from the hospital as a drug addict, 
and I have kept it up for three years. I can 
now take eight grains a day. I married a paint 
manufacturer in Kansas City. His family came 
to live with us, and I divorced him. 

“I came to Chicago and bought a home in 
Oak Park. I had a sister living there then. 
Eventually the home went for drugs. Being no 
longer able to get morphine, I cashed checks at 
department stores where previously I had had 
accounts. 

“Some doctors in Chicago give drugs to those 
who want them, and I have on many occasions 
been able to get from one physician at a time, 
as much as sixty grains. When the doctors 
don’t give it to you, the street peddlers will. 
They can tell addicts by their eyes.” 

The girl said a physician gave her and an¬ 
other girl morphine mixed with strychnine, 
which killed the other girl. 


212 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 

A 

‘Tor some reason,” she said, “I delayed in 
taking mine, and was saved. I don’t know how 
many others got that combination and were 
reported suicides.” 

Attorney W. S. McNama will ask for proba¬ 
tion for the girl in the hope that she will be 
able to fight her way back to respectability. 


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CHAPTER V 

RESTORATION OF GIRLS 

Many of the girls who are found on the 
wrong track in our larger cities are girls from 
rural neighborhoods and small towns. The 
runaway girl almost invariably gets into bad 
company through her ignorance of life and 
people, and too often lacks the will-power to 
turn back, or the knowledge to set her feet in 
the right path. 

When it becomes known that a young girl 
has left a community without her parents’ con¬ 
sent, either the parents, or friends, or the local 
authorities should at once notify the police de¬ 
partment of the nearest cities and large towns. 
In this way the girl may be apprehended before 
she has gone too far. 

Any girl under eighteen years of age about 
whom there is a question of a doubt will be 
looked after by the Juvenile Court of any city. 
Girls above this age, charged with delinquency, 
will be taken care of by special departments of 
the Municipal Court. 

The following are cases taken from the files 
of the Chicago Juvenile Protective League, 
which show the workings of the organization, 
and will suggest to parents and others who may 
be interested, the best methods of getting hold 


214 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


of runaway or delinquent girls who have passed 
out of their immediate jurisdiction. 

The Juvenile Court of Chicago has its offices 
in the City Hall Building, where the Chief Pro¬ 
bation Officer and his assistants are located. 
In this department is the Girls’ Court, in which 
delinquent girls appear before a woman judge. 
Their cases are taken care of with the utmost 
secrecy, so that there is no publicity and no 
consequent “humiliation” either to girl or 
parent through these proceedings. The one 
idea is to restore the girl to her home and to 
help her in the right path of living. The Juve¬ 
nile Detention Home where the girls stay until 
they are sent home is at 771 Gilpin Place, 
Chicago. 

The names, places and dates on the following 
cases are, of course, changed to avoid publicity 
for the individual. Otherwise they are exact 
reproductions of the records from the Chicago 
Juvenile Court files. 

The Case of Alice B -. Alice B-, two 

years high school; father dead; mother, seam¬ 
stress; two brothers, 20 and 22. 

Left home with another girl and went to 
house on West Adams Street, Chicago. Was 
arrested at 7 p. m. and brought to Juvenile 
Court. Was repentant, wanted to go home. 
Had no money. Juvenile Court turned girl over 

to sheriff from S-, Illinois, who took her 

home. 





AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 215 


The Case of Edith K- -. Edith K -, 

L-, Ohio, 16 years old. Ran away from 

home. Picked up at Union Station by Detention 
Officer. Parents notified. Mother came after 
girl. 

The Case of Emma B— —. Emma B-, 

sixteen years old. Parents, four brothers. Was 
brought in with Corinne Miller by Miss C—•—, 
of Traveler’s Aid Society. The girl arrived in 
Chicago from Chicago Heights. They inquired 
of Matron for place to work and were held at 
Travelers’ Aid Home. Emma very clumsily lied, 
saying she was Maybelle Harris, of Danville, 
Illinois. It was finally learned that she and 

Corinne lived side by side in S-, Illinois. 

Emma left school while in Seventh Grade. Had 
been working in factory. The girls went first 
to Chicago Heights, checked their suit cases, 
and took up with two young men who took them 
auto riding. Corinne wept every time this 
escapade was mentioned. They spent the night 
in the station and came to Chicago in the 
morning. Emma was very stubborn and bad 
tempered when refused communication with 
Corinne. 

Talked on Long Distance with Emma’s father, 
who claimed she had never attempted to run 
away before. Says home is very congenial and 
that Emma did not have to work. He said he 
would take her away from the factory and 
make other arrangements for her. He seems to 









216 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


have had daughter’s love and confidence. Dr. 

- examined both girls who admitted 

attempted rape. Girls returned home with 
Emma’s father and Chief of Police of S-. 

Case of Belle H- . Belle H-, 15 years 

old; father, farmer; mother, dead; four broth¬ 
ers; one sister. This girl states that ever since 
the death of their mother (eight years ago) 

she and her brothers attended the - 

School, which is near B-, N. Y. In fact, 

she had been there since four years old. Stayed 
there all the time, not even coming home at 
vacation times. First time she came home was 
in June after graduating from eighth grade. 
She stayed at home until latter part of Sep¬ 
tember, when she left and went to work at 

N-. She did house work for private family. 

Stayed at N- about a month and a half; 

then went to B-, Ohio, and did house work, 

also factory work. Went to C-, where she 

worked as second cook in hotel. Stayed there 
until she came to Chicago, where she has been 
working in book bindery. Said she had not 
told her father where she was until she came 
to Chicago. Said her father had written her 
that sister was very sick and wanted her to 
come home. Father evidently had written to 
Detention Home as Belle was picked up by De¬ 
tention officer who found that she had $20.35 
which was enough to take her home. 












AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 217 


Telegram sent to Father: 

March 18, 1923. 

E- H-, Y-, New York. 

Your daughter, Belle, in our custody, has 
twenty dollars thirty-five cents. Wants to go 
home. What do you want done with her? 
Answer at once. Signed 

J- M- 

Chief Probation Officer, 
Chicago. 

Telegram sent to Sheriff: 

March 20, 1923. 

Sheriff, Y-, N. Y. 

Belle LI-, 15, held here as homeless. 

Telegraphed father, E- H-, farmer at 

Y-. Received no reply. See what he wants 

done. Girl has money enough to go home. 
Shall we send her? Answer at once. 

Signed J-M- 

Chief Probation Officer, 
Chicago. 


Wire from Father: 

March 22, 1923. 

J- M-, Probation Officer, Chicago. 

Have Belle come at once. See her at train 
on Michigan Central. Answer. 

E-H-. 


Wire from Sheriff: 

J- M-, Probation Officer, Chicago. 

Send Belle H- home at once. Wire me, 

collect, train she leaves on and when arrives. 

Signed 

Sheriff. 





















218 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Wire from Father: 

March 22, 1923. 

J- M-, Chief Probation Officer, 

Chicago. 

Kindly wire me immediately if daughter is 
coming. 

E- H-. 

Wire to Father: 

E-H-, R. F. D., Y-, N. Y. 

Belle will arrive 5 a. m. March 23, Michigan 
Central. 

J- M-- 

Chief Probation Officer, 
Chicago. 

The Case of Dorothy Marie. Girl told proba¬ 
tion officer that she left home August 6, 1920, 
because she could not get along with her mother 
and step-father. She has not written to them, 
and they do not know where she is. 

She worked at B. & V. Paint Mfrs., in the 
office, and received $12 a week, roomed at 
Indiana Avenue, with Lillian Buckley, 22 years 
old. They did light housekeeping. They kept 
Thomas Buckley and a man whose name Dor¬ 
othy did not know, all night. The owners of 
the place objected to their entertaining men, 
so they left with the men to find another place, 
and were all arrested in a rooming house on 
Prairie Avenue, while trying to rent a room. 
Dorothy says she is glad she was arrested, and 
wants to be sent home. Case came up in court 
of Domestic Relations. 











AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 219 


Telegram to Dorothy’s Mother: 

December 30, 1921. 
Mrs. Mary D., B-, Michigan. 

Your daughter, Dorothy Marie, picked up by 
police in court December 5. What do you want 
done? Girl wants to go home. Will you send 
transportation for her? She has no money. 


J-M 


Mother’s reply: 


Chief Probation Officer, 
Chicago. 


December 31, 1921. 

Mr. J- M-, Chief Probation Officer, 

Chicago, III. 

Please send the girl home. I will pay the 
expenses as soon as she arrives here. Let me 
know what train or boat she comes on. Will 
send the money at once. Her mother, 

Mary D-, 

B-, Michigan. 


Transportation sent: 

December 31, 1921. 

J- M-, Chief Probation Officer, 

Chicago. 

Ticket order for Dorothy Marie to you by 
mail today. Send her on Goodrich boat tonight. 
Answer. 

Goodrich Transit Company. 


Telegram from the Mother: 

January 2, 1922. 

J- M-, Chief Probation Officer, 

Chicago. 

Please let me know what boat you send her 
on. Tell the captain to watch that she does not 

get off at H-H- and oblige. 

Mary D- 
















220 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


She Was Sent Home. Dorothy Marie was 
sent home to her people, but she evidently ran 
away again, and came under the supervision of 
the Juvenile Court in April, 1922, according to 
the following memoranda on the files: 

Letter to Chief Probation Officer: 

April 6, 1922. 

J-M-, Chief Probation Officer, 

City Hall, Chicago. 

Dear Sir: I understand some of your men 
picked up one of our town girls, Dorothy Marie, 
several times, and got in touch with her parents, 
who sent a ticket, and you sent her home. This 
is the third time she has gone to Chicago in the 
last year. I understand she is again in your 
care. Will you please notify me at once. 

Chief of Police, 

B-, Michigan. 


Telegram to Chief of Police: 

April 7, 1922. 

Chief of Police, B-, Michigan. 

Dorothy Marie held here at Detention Home. 
What shall we do with her? Wire immediately. 

J-M-, 

Chief Probation Officer. 


Answer: 

A-nril 7 "I QPP 

J-M-, Chief Probation Officer, 

Chicago, Ill. 

Will arrive Chicago April 8 for Dorothy 
Marie. Hold her till arrive. 


R- D-, 

Chief Police, 

B-, Michigan. 













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Chief of Police arrived and took Dorothy 
Marie back to her mother. 

Thus with infinite care the Juvenile Protec¬ 
tive League works on each case of delinquency 
which comes to its attention. With the co¬ 
operation of parents and friends of wayward 
girls much can be done to save the girl before 
she has gone too far on the wrong track. 


222 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


CHAPTER VI 

THE MAD DOWNWARD RUSH 

An organization may save a boy or a girl 
who has gone wrong. By a great deal of hard 
work, and the expenditure of a great deal of 
money, boys and girls are caught up from their 
mad downward rush, and turned back into the 
right track. A great deal of damage has been 
done, however, before this feat has been ac¬ 
complished. Too often the entire after-life has 
been clouded, even where there is an attempt 
to “go straight,” and the man or woman is to 
all outward appearances an exemplary citizen. 
In other words, scars have been left from the 
early mis-living, which never can be removed. 
Scars on the soul—scars on the brain. 

This brings up the old truism that “an ounce 
of prevention is better than a pound of cure.” 
With the parent lies the ounce of prevention. 
This is a straight, strong statement, but it is 
true, with the minimum of exceptions which 
prove the rule. Parents do not like to face a 
fact of this kind. “I have done my best,” is their 
everlasting defense. And that may be. But 
their “best” too often has proven inadequate. 
It wasn’t enough. Besides, down in their hearts 
most of them know they have not done their 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 223 


best. If they had it to do over again, they would 
do it all oh, so differently. 

Most of the troubles come from indulgence 
and indifference on the part of parents. In¬ 
dulgence on the mothers’ part, and indifference 
on the fathers’. Johnny must have as good a 
time as the other boys in the neighborhood, and 
Mary must have as good clothes as any girl she 
associates with. This is mother’s one attitude 
toward her boy and girl. Father’s conscious¬ 
ness of his children, as absolute, concrete facts 
to be dealt with individually and separately 
each day of their lives, is lost in the generality 
of “making a living” for them. He “gets the 
dough” and turns it over to mother, who dis¬ 
poses of it according to her heart impulses. Her 
problem is how best she can bring comfort and 
happiness to those blessed children of hers. It 
is a heart problem, in which the head plays a 
very small part; sometimes no part at all, judg¬ 
ing from results. 

“What else would you do?” the surprised 
mother asks when this attitude is questioned. 
“I had a hard time in my childhood,” she will 
tell you, “and I don’t intend that my children 
shall have it as hard as I did.” Bless their 
hearts, they wouldn’t have it as hard, even if 
mother made no effort to save them. Times are 
different. The advent of labor-saving devices 
would attend to that. Johnny and Mary would 
get it pretty soft now even without mother’s 
interference in their behalf. Where mother 


224 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


had to help with a back-breaking washing that 
was done out of doors over a wood fire on an 
old-fashioned wash-board, with the ironing in 
a hot kitchen, the irons heated on a stove that 
melted everything in sight, Mary helps with a 
washing turned out of a machine propelled by 
electricity in a cool basement, and irons in a 
cool kitchen with an electric iron. That is, pro¬ 
viding she helps with this sort of work at all. 
Where mother helped with knitting endless 
socks and caps and gloves, helped piece the in¬ 
evitable quilts, and sew the inevitable carpet 
rags, helped with the fall and spring sewing, 
and threw in for good measure long hours in 
the garden, and even in the fields in rush sea¬ 
son, Mary helps not at all, because these activi¬ 
ties have practically been discarded from fam¬ 
ily life in this day and age. 

Mary, therefore, has several hours of the 
twenty-four on her hands which mother did not 
have. Some of these hours she spends in danc¬ 
ing or other pleasures, and some in sleeping. 
Others she spends in dolling up, and in “chasing 
around/’ with boy or girl friends. Judge for 
yourself which of the two girls was safest when 
it comes to a point of character-making or 
breaking. The devil couldn’t get at Mary’s 
ma very well while she was darning socks or 
hanging out clothes, or helping pa plant corn. 
Somehow such occupation is not congenial to 
His Majesty, the Evil One, and he shuns those 
who are thus employed. But a girl at a dance, 


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in an automobile on a quiet road with a 
pleasure-seeking lad, or even one sitting at 
home busy with thoughts of the pretty clothes 
she wants and expects to have—these occupa¬ 
tions are a real-come-on to the Angel of Dark¬ 
ness. They are the entering wedge for Vanity, 
Lust, Self-Indulgence. 

No matter how GOOD mother is, if she 
doesn’t realize this simple fact she is in real 
danger of having a spoiled girl. Youth is full 
of energy that must be employed in some way. 
If there are no legitimate tasks for the healthy, 
growing girl to perform, find some; invent 
some; let her make clothes for an orphan 
asylum; let her cook dinners for some of the 
sick, poverty-ridden families in her town; in¬ 
stead of thinking constantly of what she will 
wear, and whether she can have more clothes 
than Flossie Evans, her wealthy chum, let her 
share what she has with the little girl next door 
who hasn’t an extra decent dress to her name. 
Instead of paint and powder and perfumes, give 
her a pair of dumb bells, and build her a gym¬ 
nasium in the woodshed. 

In other words, do everything possible to 
keep the girl’s mind off of herself; by making 
her think of others. And begin early. 

Likewise with the boy. Father should begin 
early interesting his son in small business en¬ 
terprises. A penny savings bank is a good thing 
to begin with. Instead of rushing him to the 
corner grocery for all-day suckers with his 



226 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


pennies, teach him the restraint which comes 
with saving. Let him earn what he saves and 
what he spends. Instead of the empty pride 
which will make him avoid chores and odd 
jobs, teach him to enjoy them and take pride 
in them. During vacations, get him a market 
basket and let him deliver groceries to the 
neighbors; fix him up with a paper or magazine 
route, if possible. Let him have a garden of his 
own and earn his own money selling the vege¬ 
tables from it. Get him up early in the morning, 
and keep him busy all day so he will not want 
to hang around the corners or the billiard hall 
doors while he is yet an infant. 

All of this takes intelligence, and patience 
and a degree of self-mastery on the part of 
parents that is all too rare in this day and age. 
But it is the only cure for the fast-slipping 
younger generation. As an example of what I 
mean, not longer than half an hour ago a father 
with grown children, all of them at home, said: 

“If you knew what it takes to feed that bunch 
of mine—Grace wants a roast beef or chop, 
Phil wants steaks and chicken, Anna wants 
fruit and the most expensive of pastries, Eddie 
wants this and the babies have got to have 
something else. Pve got to have a hotel menu 
every time we get up a meal—no two of them 
like the same thing, and not a one of them will 
put up with stews and the cheaper cuts of 
meat.” 

I know that this man, who is past fifty, owes 
numerous debts; that he is the sole support of 
this extravagantly, self-indulgent family, except 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 227 


a small amount which the two boys pay for 
board, room and laundry. And I know that he 
is slipping in his profession. Many times he is 
not well. Out of pure sympathy for him I said: 

“Why don’t you hold them down for a week 
—try the cheaper cuts, the simpler dishes of 
every kind. 

“Why don’t you hold out on them for a week 
—make them think you are sick, or broke, or 
something?—” 

“And let my family go in want? Not much!” 
he replied with a real touch of indignation. 

“Well, then,” I replied, “don’t blame any¬ 
body but yourself for their expensive tastes, for 
their extravagance, and for their inability to 
realize the position you are in financially.” 

“I guess you’re right,” he said, “but that 
family will go right on demanding The best,’ 
and making their old father pay for it until ht 
is in his grave. And then the daughters will 
fasten themselves upon some other man and 
demand the same of him.” 

“Are parents to blame for the course their 
children are taking in life? Let them look the 
matter squarely in the face and answer it hon¬ 
estly. When they do this, if they are not too 
weak to begin making restitution at once we 
will have a much more respectable and self- 
respecting crop of young people in the next 
generation. 

The Responsibility Lies in the Home. The 

home is the cradle of the race. It also is the 


228 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


cradle of civilization. While the cave man was 
out hunting, fighting, killing, the woman was in 
her cave-nest making every endeavor her poor 
brain could suggest, to make life a little easier 
and a little better. She loved her offspring^ 
and love is the fountain head of culture and of 
civilization. Out of her attempt to care for her 
little ones developed the first crude hammock, 
and such arts as pottery, weaving, gardening, 
etc. These arts spread out of the home into 
everv nook and corner of the world, and made 
humanity a civilized race. As love and the arts 
were an outgrowth of the home, so were wis¬ 
dom, and patience, and self-restraint. And these 
virtues so badly needed today must again find 
their roots under the roof-tree, and there they 
must flourish and blossom, with the result that 
the young in the home are not only indulgently 
loved, but that they are nourished and trained 
in wisdom and the virtues of self-respect and in 
that broader social consciousness which recog¬ 
nizes that the good of one is the good of all, and 
vice versa. 

“Whatsoever ye would that men should do 
unto you, do ye even so unto them,” is an old- 
fashioned and almost forgotten motto that 
ought to be brought out from the dust and the 
cobwebs and hung conspicuously in the bed 
chamber of every child in every home in the na¬ 
tion. Buried into the brain of the child it will 
act as a check-rein in future years when there 
is an impulse to discard old and useless parents; 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 229 


when the desire arises to “do” somebody else 
for the sake of a little more personal pleasure; 
when money seems more valuable than men; 
when there is a temptation to discard the old 
wife and take on a new one; when a little ro¬ 
mantic by-play looks good to the wife of a trust¬ 
ing husband; when the hot pursuit of pleasure 
is more alluring to young married couples than 
the bearing and rearing of children. 

It is the little things that make life heaven 
or otherwise; Home is the culture ground of 
these little things, and the seeds are sown early, 
and fall upon very rich and fertile soil. What 
the home-life sows in the morning of its day it 
reaps at the setting of the sun. 


What will YOUR harvest be? 


230 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Plate VIII 



This Plate Shows the Relation of the Pancreas to the Spleen, the 
Urinary Apparatus, the Deep Muscles of the Abdomen, the Vascular 
Supply of the Trunk and the Principal Bones of the Arm. 





















































Standard. Sex Knowledge and 
Health Encyclopedia 


Part III 


HOME ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALTH 

PART III 


SICKROOM MANAGEMENT 

A person suffering from sickness of any de¬ 
scription should be kept in well ventilated quar¬ 
ters, where plenty of fresh air can be had at all 
times. The larger and higher the room the bet¬ 
ter. The surroundings should be cheerful and 
noiseless, especially in diseases of the nervous 
system. The attendants or nurses, whether they 
be members of the family or outsiders, should be 
animated with good spirits and as attentive as 
possible, but prudent in all things, for fear of 
arousing suspicion, which might cause anxiety 
to the patient. 

Any experienced nurse or medical practi¬ 
tioner will tell you that half the battle with sick 
patients is pursuading them that they will event¬ 
ually recover in spite of their illness. A kind 
word of cheer should, therefore, be always on 
the lips, so to speak, and should be the first 
salutation when entering the sickroom. No mat¬ 
ter how desperately ill a patient may be, a word 
of assurance that they are improving as well as 
can be expected, goes a long way towards bet¬ 
tering their mental condition and recovery. A 
sad expression or despondent look on the coun- 


234 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


tenance of a nurse or doctor, has a depressing 
effect on the mind of the patient, depending on 
the nature and characteristics of the sick one, 
and retards rather than helps recovery. 

Relative to aforementioned fresh air, it is 
preferable to have it enter the sickroom from 
the upper part of windows. It helps the patient's 
recovery to have some friendly acquaintance as 
a nurse or attendant to wait upon them. Cleanli¬ 
ness of bed linen, nurses wearing apparel and, 
practically every necessity in the sick room, is 
of the utmost importance. If a chart on the pa¬ 
tient's condition is not kept, every change, no 
matter how slight, should be reported to the at¬ 
tending physician, immediately upon his arrival. 
The doctor's instructions should be followed to 
the letter. “A place for everything and every¬ 
thing in its place," is a good maxim to follow, in 
the sickroom. 

The nurse should always remember that the 
recovery of the patient depends greatly upon 
her. In cleaning, sweeping, or dusting sick¬ 
room, care should be taken that the patient is 
not disturbed or made uncomfortable in the 
least. Remember, sunshine and pure fresh air 
are absolute requisites in the sickroom, with the 
exception of, possibly, one or two diseases, such 
as certain forms of brain trouble, etc., when 
light should be excluded to a certain extent, but 
not wholly. As the patient's recovery progresses 
and he becomes convalescent, it is advisable to 
gradually accustom him to the fresh air, in prep- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 235 


aration for his departure from the sickroom. 
The temperature of the sickroom should be con¬ 
sidered of the highest importance, depending 
upon the disease and the patient. 

The principal qualifications for successfully 
caring for the sick, are kindness, firmness, 
promptness, sobriety of demeanor and an in¬ 
telligent appreciation of and obedience to what¬ 
ever instructions may be given from time to 
time by the doctor. They should be cheerful, 
gentle, forbearing, patient and humane in 
speech and action, and should set an example to 
those with whom they may come in contact, 
especially the patient, of industry, order, clean¬ 
liness, etc. Noiselessness, without arousing the 
patient’s suspicion, is absolutely requisite at all 
times. Cooking, of any kind, should be pro¬ 
hibited in the sick room. Flowers are a welcome 
addition to the sickroom. Death is possible in 
all diseases. If a patient should succumb from 
some chronic disease or begins to show symp¬ 
toms of dying, keep cool. When danger of death 
is imminent, call immediately for the doctor. 

Being an absolute impossibility to formulate 
a system of instructions which would apply to 
every emergency to be met with in the sickroom, 
a great deal has to be left to the nurse or at¬ 
tendant, which offers them a further oppor¬ 
tunity of enhancing their services for the good 
of humanity. Good sound common sense ap¬ 
plies, just as forcibly to the management of the 
sickroom, as it does in any other sphere of life. 


236 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Plate IX 



This Plate Shows the Principal Bones of the Trunk, Arm and Foraarm 


nog uav no c/U3uah 

























AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 237 


SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF 
VARIOUS DISEASES 

BRONCHITIS. This disease, usually, starts 
with chest pains, chills, fever, costiveness, gen¬ 
eral weakness, hard breathing, hoarseness, 
with hard and fast pulse beats, accompanied by 
a harsh, dry cough. As cough increases, a pale, 
wan appearance is noted in patient, who suf¬ 
fers from difficulty of breathing and a choking, 
strangling sensation. As disease progresses, a 
wheezing, rattling noise is very perceptible, fol¬ 
lowed by cold sweats, etc. 

Treatment. If breathing is difficult, which 
is most likely, a sheet may be placed over the 
bed in the form of a canopy. Steam from spout 
of tea kettle containing boiling water, to which 
is added one teaspoonful of Compound Tincture 
of Benzolin to each quart of water, is directed 
under canopy and patient allowed to breathe 
same. Care should be taken not to allow steam 
to come in too intimate contact with patient for 
fear of burns. If patient gets worse, see a 
doctor. 

COSTIVENESS. Costiveness is a condition 
where the bowels are not performing their func¬ 
tions properly or, in other words, the bowels are 
sluggish and irregular and the patient consti¬ 
pated. The faeces are contained too long for 
normal, healthy conditions to obtain. Nau¬ 
seousness, fullness and dullness around the 


238 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


stomach, want of appetite, headache, dizziness, 
fever, etc., accompany costiveness, which is 
caused, principally, by sluggish habits, laziness, 
stimulating food, confinement of bowels and 
various other reasons. 

Treatment. It is rarely necessary to take 
medicine for this complaint. A cure may be 
effected by eating digestible foods, such as fruit, 
soft-boiled eggs, vegetables, whole wheat bread 
or toast, etc. Eat slowly and digest your food 
properly. Regularity at stool. An effort should 
be made to evacuate the bowels, at least, once 
a day and at a specified time if possible. In 
fact, this rule might be said to apply to all and 
sundry, whether, constipated, costive or not. 
It is a very good plan to adopt by anyone de¬ 
siring perfect health. Sweetened and stimulat¬ 
ing foods should be discarded. Drink plenty of 
water. Take regular exercise. Bathe fre¬ 
quently. If a doctor is difficult to be had and 
you think medicine is necessary for a cure, the 
following preparation will be found beneficial, 
taken in dose of from two drams to two ounces. 
Four ounces of bicarbonate of soda to two 
quarts of water, one and one-half ounces of pul¬ 
verized aloes, tw'o fluid ounces of compound 
spirits of lavender. Place in suitable receptacle 
and leave for ten to fifteen days. 

DIARRHOEA. This, very annoying and 
sometimes dangerous complaint may be caused 
by debility, or foods which have a tendency to 
irritate and inflame the bowels. A low, heavy, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 239 


continued noise in the bowels, occasionally ac¬ 
companies this disorder, with pains and heavi¬ 
ness before evacuation. 

Treatment. This disease is very amenable to 
treatment, if taken in time, occasionally by sim¬ 
ply removing the cause and by the continued 
use of laxative foods to prevent its recurrence. 
If this disease becomes chronic, astringents and 
tonics are advisable. In its earliest stages, a 
little brandy with milk warmed, will help con¬ 
siderably. Cold water injections are occasionally 
recommended in diarrhoea. Where bowels are 
ulcerated or inflamed, hot fomentations and 
starch injections are recommended. Sponge 
baths are advised by many. If patient has be¬ 
come very weak, tonics are requisite for restor¬ 
ing health. 

MUMPS. This disease, very common among 
children, begins with stiffness and soreness in 
and around neck. The gland situated near the 
ear becomes swollen and painful. As the disease 
progresses, the pain becomes more intense, 
eventually developing to such an extent that it 
is with difficulty the patient can swallow. Even 
opening of the mouth becomes difficult. It is 
liable to affect both sides or only one side of the 
face. Fever, invariably, accompanies this 
disease. The bowels are constipated, pulse 
rapid, skin sleek and dry, etc. 

Treatment. It is of the utmost importance 
that the patient is kept warm and comfortable. 


240 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


Warm drinks made from certain herbs, are ad¬ 
visable. The judicious use of cathartics, help 
if constipated. In extreme cases, hot foot-baths 
and poultices are necessary. 

TUBERCULOSIS. This most deadly of all 
diseases, if treated in its earlier stages, stands 
a fair chance of being cured. Great progress 
has been made during the last twenty years in 
the treatment of tuberculosis, so much so, that 
cases which were looked upon in former years 
as well-nigh impossible of cure are today suc¬ 
cessfully treated. Medicine is rarely used in 
this disease, excepting to heal the inflamed tis¬ 
sues and relieve the cough. Out-door life, where 
pure fresh air can be had at all times, day and 
night, is an absolute requisite. Physical and 
mental exercises, but not enough to fatigue. 
Avoid any and everything which has a tendency 
to lower your vitality. Alcohol, in any form, 
tobacco, snuff, narcotics, drugs, etc. are taboo. 
Avoid sudden changes of heat and cold. Clothe 
warmly. Eat good wholesome, nourishing foods. 
Drink plenty of pure water. Cleanliness, in all 
things, is absolutely necessary. If circumstances 
permit, seek high altitude. Exercise only and 
always outdoors. Remember your disease is 
contagious and act accordingly by adopting 
cleanliness at all times. If possible, put your¬ 
self under the supervision of a physician. 

BOILS.—The first symptom of a boil is the 
appearance of a red pimple, or small red spot, 
which gradually becomes enlarged and ripe, 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 241 


with a white point or spot, which, eventually, 
bursts and discharges pus and occasionally 
blood. Boils are a constitutional trouble and 
when they appear with too much frequency, a 
blood tonic is needed, such as tincture of iron. 
It is not advisable to tamper with boils until 
they burst of their own accord, when some heal¬ 
ing salve may be applied to the opening or 
cavity. 

CHILBLAINS.—This very annoying com¬ 
plaint, in practically every instance, begins 
with an itching, tingling sensation all around 
the affected parts of the feet or hands and is 
usually caused by frost-bite or exposure to ex¬ 
treme cold weather, depending greatly upon the 
circulation of the individual. An ointment or 
liniment which will stimulate the parts, should 
be used or wash the hands or feet in snow. 

DYSPEPSIA.—The symptoms of this disease 
are heartburn, irregularity of the bowels, coated 
furry tongue, rank taste in mouth, oppression 
and fullness about stomach after meals, change¬ 
able vision, palpitation, etc., caused primarily, 
to physical inactivity, insufficient mastication or 
bolting down of your food, too highly seasoned 
foods, etc. Removal of aforementioned condi¬ 
tions will effect a cure in nearly every instance 
after the effects are removed. 

FROSTBITE.—The first thing to be done in 
frostbite is to restore heat as gradually as pos¬ 
sible. Start the circulation by slight rubbing of 
snow or ice water. As the feeling begins to 


242 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


come back, continue the process or keep soaked 
in cold water, so as to gradually restore the nor¬ 
mal heat to the body. The same treatment 
might be applied to a person picked up in an 
unconscious condition, until signs of recovering 
consciousness sets in, when a small injection of 
camphor and water might be given. Touch 
the tongue with a few drops of camphor. As 
recovery progresses, rub with weakened spirits 
or alcohol, then with pure spirits or alcohol. 
Stimulate his system further by strong coffee, 
tea, or whatever suitable stimulant may be at 
hand. 

HEARTBURN. — This peculiar, sickening, 
burning sensation in the stomach, can be, in¬ 
variably, relieved by taking a glass of water in 
which a teaspoonful of salt or baking soda has 
been mixed. A small portion of dry salt, or 
soda will relieve the feeling in very many in¬ 
stances. Effervescing laxatives, like the Seid- 
litz, will have the same effect. A recurrence 
of heartburn can be prevented by careful eat¬ 
ing and drinking. 

SEASICKNESS.—This malady can produce 
an accumulation of suffering to the inexperi¬ 
enced seafarer. In fact there are some who find 
it extremely difficult to take even the shortest 
sea trip without suffering from its effects. A 
hearty meal a short time before sailing is said 
to be a preventive, other conditions being fav¬ 
orable. Keep bowels open during the trip with 
some mild laxative pills, such as compound rhu- 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 243 


barb pills. Those who are susceptible to sea¬ 
sickness, would be well advised to lay in bed 
or on a couch for the first day or two and hold 
this horizontal position until they feel they are 
capable of going on deck without falling a vic¬ 
tim again. If a recurrence sets in it would be 
advisable to take a little brandy. Medicinal 
agents have not been very successful in curing 
this malady. 

Plate X 



This Plate Shows the Principal Muscles of the Trunk, Upper 
Extremities and the Arterial Supply of the Upper Extremity 
























































244 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DISEASES AND 
THEIR TREATMENT 

BLACKHEADS.—14 grammes oxide of zinc; 
60 grammes vaseline; 14 grammes ergotine. 
Apply locally and massage at night. 

CATARRH.—50 drops carbolic acid in qt. 
water. Use with nasal spray. 

CHICKEN POX.—3 oz. water; 10 drops tine, 
veratrum; */2 oz. asclepias. 1 teaspoonful 
hourly. 

CORNS.—Place heavy coat common black axle 
grease over corn for 3 or 4 days; soak and 
wash feet daily. 

CRAMPS— 1V2 gr. acetate of morphia; 1 gr. oil 
of camphor; 2 dr. chloroform; 6 dr. mucilage. 
Dose 20 drops hourly. 

DIARRHOEA.—Hot milk, with plenty of nut¬ 
meg sprinkled in it, will relieve considerably. 

DIPHTHERIA.—3 oz. syrup; % muriatic acid, 
diluted. Dose—1 teaspoonful mixed with 
water every 2 or 3 hours. 

DROPSY AND HEART AFFECTION.—An in¬ 
fusion of tea, made from ‘‘lily of the valley,” 
taken in doses of from one to three or four 
tablespoonfuls, twice daily, will greatly aid 
and strengthen the heart and relieve short¬ 
ness of breath. When trouble is relieved, it 
is advisable to stop using until a recurrence 
of symptoms sets it. 


AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 245 


EARACHE.—5 drops sweet oil; 2 drops lauda¬ 
num. Mix and warm. Use syringe to drop 
in ear. 

ECZEMA.—2 drs. ether; 2 drs. glycerine; 1/2 
oz. ichthyol. Apply to parts without rub¬ 
bing. 

ERYSIPELAS.—See cure for eczema. 

GONORRHOEA.—Use internally, gum turpen¬ 
tine made into very small pills, about % doz. 
daily. Inject 5 gr. permanganate of potash, 
mixed with pint of water—external use only. 

HEADACHE.—1 teaspoonful bromo-seltzer ev- 
ery % hour for 3 doses. 

HIVES.—Weakened vinegar bath to affected 
parts. 

KIDNEY TROUBLE.—% teaspoonful fl. ext. 
barberry taken in water. 1 or 2 doses daily. 

MEASLES.—24 gr. chloride of ammonia; 16 
gr. carb. of ammonium; 3 oz. syrup of wild 
cherry. 1 teaspoonful every hour. Sweet¬ 
ened lime juice will relieve cough. 

PLEURISY.—2 drops tine, aconite every hour; 
good warm poultices. 

RHEUMATISM.—Celery tea; boil stalks and 
drink as much as possible. 

SCARLET FEVER.—5 drops sweet spirits of 
nitre; 1 drop tine, aconite. Chew ice. 

TOOTHACHE.—Apply 1 to 3 drops of chloro¬ 
form to tooth or gum. Try rinsing mouth 
with hot and cold water, alternately. 

WHOOPING COUGH.—Honey mixed with 
alum, about 2 grs. every couple of hours. 


246 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


SIMPLE EFFECTIVE CURES IN LATIN AND 

ENGLISH 

The medicinal remedies under this heading 
are given in both the Latin and English lan¬ 
guage, in order to enable the reader to see, at 
a glance, the simple elements of which they are 
compounded, many of which the average house¬ 
wife has got in her pantry or kitchen, or which 
can be had at any well-stocked grocery store. 
The Latin term of each separate ingredient is 
given first, immediately followed by its exact 
meaning in English, divided by a dash. This 
method is used in order to save valuable space. 
EXAMPLE: (Aqua bulliens—Warm water.) 

The former or aqua bulliens is the Latin term, 
the latter or warm water is the English term. 
ASTHMA.—Aqua bulliens—warm water 1 
pint; Lobelia folia—Lobelia leaves 1 teacupful. 
Take 1 tablespoonful every 15 min. till phlegm 
is spit up. Soak % hour before using. CHOL¬ 
ERA.—Acetum—Cider vinegar y 2 teacupful; 
Piper nigrum—Black pepper 4 teaspoonfuls; 
Aqua bulliens—Warm water y 2 teacupful; 
Chloride sodium—Common salt 3 teaspoonfuls. 
Dose I tablespoonful twice hourly until better. 
Mix before using. CONSTIPATION.—Sulphur 
flores—Flower of sulphur 4 drachms; Soda 
bitart—Cream tartar 2 grs.; Pulv. lg. carbo.— 

Pulv. charcoal 2 teaspoonfuls; Pulv. capsici_ 

Cayenne pepper 30 grs.; Mellis—Honey 1 tea- 



AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA 247 


spoonful. Take y 2 teaspoonful daily until 
improved. CROUP.—Aqua bulliens—Warm 
water 1 teacupful; Pulv. alumen—Powdered 
alum 2 teaspoonfuls; Treacle—Molasses 1 ta¬ 
blespoonful. Take one tablespoonful every 5 or 
10 min. until better. DIARRHOEA.—Car- 
rophyllum—Cloves 1/2 oz.; Bubus villosus— 
Ripe blackberries 1 lb.; Allspice—Allspice 14 
oz.; Saccha alba—White sugar 14 lb. Add 1 
pint of brandy after boiling and straining mix¬ 
ture. Take 1 tablespoonful and more if neces¬ 
sary every 4 hours. DROPSY.—Potass bitartras 
—Cream tartar 1 teaspoonful; Aqua sacch— 
Sweetened water 1 wineglassful; Pulv. jalapa 
—Powdered jalap 10 grs. Dose, take y 2 wine- 
glassful every 2 hrs. until relieved or discharge 
takes place. NEURALGIA.—Vaseline—Vase¬ 
line 2 oz.; Ex belladonna—Belladonna y 2 oz. 
Rub part as often as desired. GOUT.—Wheat 
bran—Wheat bran 3 tablespoonfuls; Pulv. 
ulumus—Powdered slippery elm 1 tablespoon¬ 
ful. Poultice affected part. GRAVEL.—Hol¬ 
land gin—Holland gin 1 pint; Sacch. alb.—Loaf 
sugar 8 oz.; Pyrus rad—Apple root tea 1 quart. 
1 teacupful 2 or 3 times daily. HEARTBURN.— 
Aqua—Water y 2 teacupful; Soda bicarb.—Bak¬ 
ing soda 14 teaspoonful. Taken after meals. 
HOARSENESS—Acetum—Cider vinegar y 2 
pint; Amoricia—Horse radish 2 oz.; Mellis— 
Honey 1 gill. Mix vinegar and horse radish and 
soak over night, add honey and warm and 
strain. y 2 to 1 teaspoonful every 3 hours until 



248 STANDARD SEX KNOWLEDGE 


better. WORMS IN CHILDREN.—01. terebin- 
thinae—Turpentine 1 tablespoonful; Lactis— 
Milk 1 teacupful; 01. ricini—Castor oil 1 tea¬ 
spoonful. Dose 3 to 4 tablespoonfuls. SCROF¬ 
ULA.—Taraxacum rad—Dandelion root *4 
pound; Aqua—Water 1 gallon; stillinga rad— 
Stillinga root % lb.; Sasafras rad.—Sassafras 
root 2 oz. Sarsaparilla rad—Sarsaparilla root *4 
lb.; Rumex crispus—Yellow dock % lb. This 
should make 4 quarts when boiled and strained, 
then add 4 to 6 lbs sugar (white). Take 1 table¬ 
spoonful about every 3 hrs. EARACHE.—Tine, 
opii—Laudanum 1 teaspoonful; Saccus alium— 
Onion juice 2 teaspoonfuls; 01. Olivae—Sweet 
oil 2 teaspoonfuls. 3 or 4 drops in ear. BOILS. 
—Potass, bitratras—Cream tartar 3 tablespoon¬ 
fuls; Sulphur flores—Flower of sulphur 6 table¬ 
spoonfuls. Take 1 tablespoonful twice daily. 
PILES.—Sulph. flores—Flower of sulphur 1 
dr.; Vaseline—Vaseline 1 tablespoonful Apply 
thrice daily. SORE EYES.—Aq. camphor— 
Camphor water 1 oz.; Soda biboras—Borate of 
soda 2 grs. 1 drop in eye several times daily. 
SORE THROAT.—Treacle—Molasses 1 table¬ 
spoonful; Aqua bulliens—Warm water 1 tea¬ 
cupful; Pulv. alumen—Powdered alum 2 tea¬ 
spoonfuls. Take 2 to 3 tablespoonfuls every 15 
minutes until improvement is shown. 













